Amendment No. 17 is to remove the section of the Bill that would deny people additional time to build up towards a Part 4 tenancy that is proposed in the Bill. I think other parties and Deputies support the principle that people living as tenants should be able to acquire those rights. I strongly support Deputy Bríd Smith on amendment No. 19. I raised this earlier and directly with the Minister. There is significant fear among the Traveller community, both on legally sanctioned sites due to inadequate facilities an…

I want to speak to amendment No. 38. Obviously, while the measures that have been proposed in the Government's Bill will give renters a level of temporary protection, one of the big concerns many of us have is that they will build up significant rent arrears over that period and even if, for example, an emergency rent supplement payment is provided, which we are hearing could be the case, that still will not deal with the problem. Our view is that it would not be good either for tenants, the rental system or the ec…

I move amendment No. 57: In page 26, lines 11 and 12, to delete all words from “and” in line 11 down to and including line 12 and substitute the following: “(d) in section 69, by the substitution of “section 53 or 53A” for “section 53”, “(e) in section 4(4), by the substitution of “Dáil Éireann” for “each House of the Oireachtas”, (f) in section 4(5), by the substitution of “Dáil Éireann” for “either House of the Oireachtas”, and (g) the amendments to section 4 of the Defence Act 1954 shall lapse when the Covid-19 …