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No. 17 of 2020

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020

Public bill · Government · Presented

During the Covid-19 emergency period, renters who lost income because of the pandemic would get extra protection from eviction for rent arrears, but only if they formally declared their situation and sent it to the Residential Tenancies Board and their landlord. Landlords would have to give longer warning periods, send rent-arrears notices and termination notices to both the tenant and the Board, and could not raise rents during that period. It also changes some rent-termination rules, allows tenancy hearings to be held in private, and gives Dun Laoghaire Rathdown more time to publish its valuation list.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to increase notice periods in relation to notices of termination served on tenants during the period from the date of the passing of this Act to 10 January 2021 for failure to pay rent due and to prohibit increases in rents on tenancies of dwellings during that period; to make provision in relation to the giving of notifications, and notices of termination, by landlords to tenants and the Residential Tenancies Board in relation to arrears of rent; to extend the period within which a valuation list in relation to the rating authority area of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council shall be published; for those and other purposes, to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004, the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020 and the Valuation Act 2001; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

Last updated 17 August 2020

Sponsor
  • Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages
    Seanad
  • Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages
    Dáil
  • Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Order for Second Stage
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  • Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed)
    Dáil

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