Dublin Fingal East — week of Mon, 1 Apr

What your Dublin Fingal East TDs did this week

Mon, 1 Apr – 7 Apr 2019 · 3 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 5 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Residential Tenancies (Prevention of Family Homelessness) Bill 2018

2019-04-04 · 1 vote · Sinn Féin PMB

A bill to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 to give greater protection to households renting from buy-to-let landlords. Under the Act i…

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A bill to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 to give greater protection to households renting from buy-to-let landlords. Under the Act it would no longer be legal to evict tenants in buy-to-let properties on the grounds that the property is to be sold. A sale could take place however with the current tenant and any remaining portion of the tenancy agreement still in place.

Whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) · motion failed 43–81

Voted against 1 Darragh O'Brien

Did not vote 2 Ann Graves · Duncan Smith

Ann Graves — Sinn Féin 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Darragh O'Brien — Fianna Fáil 1 vote · 5 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 5 total

Housing 3 questions
- 2019-04-02 Deputy Darragh O'Brien asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of local authority dwellings demolished in 2018 under Department approved schemes, by local authority. [14748/19]
- 2019-04-04 Deputy Darragh O'Brien asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the reason Ireland has not signed up to Article 31 of the European Social Charter; the work being undertaken to ensure that ratification of this article is being progressed; and when Ireland will be in a position to ratify the article. [15739/19]
- 2019-04-04 Deputy Darragh O'Brien asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to extend the rent pressure zone designation periods beyond three years in Dublin and Cork from December 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15800/19]
Public 2 questions
- 2019-04-02 Deputy Darragh O'Brien asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if all necessary financial assistance will be provided to Fingal County Council to tackle the alarming rate of coastal erosion that is occurring at The Burrow, Portrane, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15172/19]
- 2019-04-02 Deputy Darragh O'Brien asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress in the preparation of a national coastal erosion strategy and plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15173/19]

Duncan Smith — Labour Party 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.