The eviction ban doesn't, and never did, apply to anyone "making shite of their rental" or "dodging rent". It applied only to no-fault evictions.
The only reason to support lifting it is because you think that it is more important that a landlord can make a profit from the sale of a property than that tenants should have security of tenure.
People can dress that up behind layers of obfuscation, but fundamentally that's the choice here and where you fall on it is based on what you think is more important.
So with what the government is saying they're going to come out with come April 1st, if my landlord decides to sell up, can I go to the council and inform them of such and get them to buy the property, and then I can do the rent to buy scheme with the council when they purchase it?
I'm paying private with no government subsidies
It's going to be a clusterfuck. It's not even clear where government will get sufficient valuers for any of this.
You might get lucky and the Local Authority will decide the sale price is good value. More likely they will not.
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Diplomats sometimes get arrested, in this case it is not Ireland who are charging him but an international body. That is the violation of diplomatic immunity.
Russia would not declare war on Ireland for executing an ICC warrant - in doing so they would be declaring war on the West at large.
Diplomats sometimes get arrested, in this case it is not Ireland who are charging him but an international body.
I can't really recall any situation where any head of state has been arrested. Especially not one so important.
Ireland might not be charging him but Ireland is arresting him. The ICC has no power to arrest people.
for executing an ICC warrant - in doing so they would be declaring war on the West at large.
The west who? Only US would have the power to do anything, and the US absolutely hates the ICC. They literally passed a law declaring that any
Russia would not declare war on Ireland
You have to be absolutely delusional if you think you can arrest a head of state and that state won't declare war on you.
Even the US passed a law saying they'll do whatever they need to release any military personnel that would face the ICC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act
If the US says they'd invade Netherlands to release military people, arresting Russia is the level of sending nukes.
The US has supported the ICC's actions on this, they just don't feel that the ICC should apply to them.
Russia isn't going to declare war on Ireland in this context as doing so would present an existential threat to the Russian state.
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The volume here is entirely different, and as it stands valuations take an age and are a major delay in the state purchasing homes.
If this requires valuations it will fail almost immediately.
The problems with the scheme aren't to do with eligibility, but with the value of the homes: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/03/10/low-uptake-of-tenant-in-situ-scheme-as-house-purchases-set-to-miss-1500-target/
Unsurprisingly the local authorities aren't interested in owning a portfolio of overvalued homes spread out randomly throughout the local authority area.
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The Convention Centre in Dublin is class. Really great design.
10 Hanover Quay is class he way they integrated the existed building
I quite dislike the convention centre. It looks nice from the front, but incredibly ugly from every other vantage point.
It's a pity that the planned hotel that was to to behind it was never built as it would have at least went some way towards removing the "massive concrete wall" effect that the CC has from every vantage point other than the quays.
Not a building but I really like the Samuel Beckett Bridge.
Me too, I wish they'd stop covering it in tacky fucking lights though. And actually maintain the functional lights at pavement level.
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I doubt the government can survive even a minor loss in a vote. If this government falls; it's a general election. There can be no justification for attempting to keep a caretaker administration for two years or indeed trying to cobble together some kind of minority government of incompetents.
And as I've said before putting a fiver on the old age pension isn't going to cut it these days. SF will just offer a tenner in their first budget.
I anticipate a May election and the hopeful eradication of FF, the Greens and Labour.
Not a hope they go before July. Nobody really wants to go before July, including the opposition. Election between September-December most likely in my view, once the extra seats are in play.
Much of the judiciary and inner-bar - although also extends to partnership levels at large law firms.
Just to take an example, the highest level of the Supreme Court. About a third related to senior judges or FG figures. _
Chief Justice O'Donnell - Nepo Baby. Dad was a judge (court of appeal, NI)
Judge Iseult O'Mally - Nepo Baby. Cousin of former Chief Justice O'Higgins, granddaughter of Minister for Justice Kevin O'Higgins and a family generally heavy with prominent Fine Gael TDs, Senators, and MEPs.
Judge Marie Baker - Not a Nepo Baby, at all. Neither parent had even a leaving certificate.
Judge Elizabeth Dunne - Not a Nepo Baby.
Judge Gerard Hogan - Not a Nepo Baby.
Judge Maurice Collins - Nepo Baby. Dad was a mere solicitor, but his granduncle was the Michael Collins. Appointed to the Supreme Court by Fine Gael and you just can't beat that kind of pedigree.
Judge Brian Murray - doesn't seem to be a Nepo baby. Hard to tell, former CJ John Murray has a son Brian but no confirmation that they're the same guy.
Judge Peter Charleton - Not a Nepo Baby.
Seamus Wolfe - Not a Nepo baby. He put in the work being a fixer, fundraiser, etc., for Fine Gael, and whatever law shit he did on the side I guess...
President George Birmingham - Not a Nepo baby. Doesn't appear to have a legal pedigree, but rather spent his time working for Fine Gael, including as TD and Minister of State
President David Barniville - Nepo Baby. Grandfather was a Fine Gael senator, the longest serving one until lately.
Yeah.. I am intending to go into the legal profession and recently had an interview at a Dublin firm. Another person waiting to be interviewed with me seemed to personally know a few people in the office and my heart kind of sank. Didn't get the job but hopefully there is room for people with no connections starting out
Nah, people can get in without connections, you just have to be better than you'd have to be if you had a relative in the firm (or connections with a major client).
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This whole thing confuses me. If I was a landlord and wasn't allowed evict if needed, I would want to be massively remunerated for the risk, so put rents way way up or just leave it sit empty and make money on its value increasing. Am I missing something or does this not screw over renters?
If the renter refuses to pay, I still have to pay the mortgage on that property. If I couldn't afford to pay 2 mortgages, my only choice is to sell my personal home and rent, as the eviction ban stops me selling investment property. So dispite owning 2 homes, you run the risk of being evicted? I would NEED a ball of cash to take on this risk surely? Not arguing for it, just genuinely don't understand the outrage. I can only see it leading to huge investment companies who can afford this risk. Is this the idea. To marginalise the one off landlords?
The eviction ban would not stop you from evicting a non paying tenant.
Huge amount of people here against a policy that they don't understand.
You just have to go through the RTB process...
Same as before the eviction ban.
You can't claim that the eviction ban is responsible for X (although not providing any data on X...) and then say that the reason is some regulation in place before the eviction ban.
O'Hanlon has never really cared that much about accuracy
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