Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019
Public bill · Government · Presented
The measures set up an independent regulator for approved housing bodies, which are the organisations that provide and manage much of the State’s social housing. It would make those bodies register, follow standards on governance, money, property and tenant management, and submit to checks, investigations and compliance plans where needed. It also gives the regulator powers to act quickly to protect tenants and housing assets, including seeking court orders, while giving bodies a route to appeal decisions. This matters because it aims to protect public investment in social housing and give tenants, investors and the public greater confidence that the sector is well run.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the regulation of approved housing bodies for the purposes of protecting certain housing assets provided or managed by such bodies; to establish a body to be known in the Irish language as An tUdaras Riala.Ia na gComhlachtai Tithiochta Faomhaithe or, in the English language, as the Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority and to confer functions on it; to provide for the registration of certain persons as approved housing bodies; to provide for the setting of standards for approved housing bodies relating to governance, financial management, property and asset management and tenancy management and compliance with those standards; to provide for the carrying out of standards assessments and the monitoring of the implementation of compliance plans; to provide for the carrying out of investigations; to make provision in relation to the protection of approved housing bodies; to provide for the application, with modification, of certain provisions of the Companies Act 2014 to approved housing bodies; to provide for the cancellation of registration of approved housing bodies; to provide for the establishment of an Appeals Panel to hear appeals from certain decisions of the Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority; for those purposes to amend the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992; and to provide for related matters.
Last updated 17 January 2020
- Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government Primary
- First StageDáil
- Second StageDáil
- Committee StageDáil
- Report StageDáil
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- Second StageSeanad
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- Report StageSeanad
- Fifth StageSeanad Enacted
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- Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages Seanad
- Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Second Stage Seanad
- Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Order for Report Stage Dáil
- Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages Dáil
- Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Committee Stage Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
- Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Referral to Select Committee Dáil
- Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Order for Second Stage Dáil
- Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Second Stage Dáil