The eviction ban

An absolute crock a sh1t this eviction ban. It's like they brought it in and that is it.....nothing more!!!!

As I said a few posts above, the moratorium did not apply to delinquent tenants. It only postponed the eviction of tenants who were fulfilling their obligations i.e. if you had three years left to run on your lease and you never caused trouble or were never late with your payments, the moratorium prevented the landlord from unilaterally breaking that lease to turf you out.

You said:

Not paying your rent would make you a delinquent tenant. Moratorium would not be applicable to you. Things would proceed - however slowly - as if the moratorium never existed and would not be affected by it at all.

I can't remember why the eviction ban was brought in the in the first place and if the government were bounced into it. Its like the brought in the eviction ban and did nothing just to prove a point.

That is the feeling that I am getting and why I asked in my post where the government bounced into it and because of that just paid a lip service to putting services in place to help people who are going to get eviction notices. Only now with the prospect of nearly 5000 evictions notices been given did they try to do things.

The whole thing is a mess and it is going to take time for not only supply to come on board but also for the Local Authority to get their housing departments back up and running as well, as it seems that they are going to be getting back in property management again.

I think the number will increase exponentially now. Everyone wants out. You are right, there will be another ban at the end of this year so i thin there is going to be a scramble to get out before then. Of course not all of them will be out for them. Those guys left will be rightly screwed at that point.

That's a different point. And has no relevance to the moratorium. The steps you'd have had to take if you tenant stopped paying on 31st October would have been the same regardless of whether there was a moratorium in place or not.

If you want to fix or change something, you first have to identify the cause of the issue.

Immigration should in theory encourage investment in property including buy/build to let/accidental landlordism, the current exodus of LLs is happening despite high rents and is in my mind because of the high level of uncertainty (close to 100 changes between statutory instruments and legislation and none in LLs favour in last few years) in B/BTL/ AL makes it a bad investment.

There is 3.45% available on deposits from Raisin.ie with none of the risk/uncertainty/hassle/opprobrium of being a LL and we are a bit away from SF temporarily banning bank withdrawals in order to keep their clients in Chinese takeouts and nose pilates.

There is a slippery slope disregard for private property rights among a lot of the commentary on this. In todays Irish Times some professor in Maynooth is telling tenants to simply stay in their rental property if they have no where to go.

So basically the criteria for hijacking someone's private property would be 'no where to go'.

Would there be a time limit on the repossession of these properties by tenants?

Very good points and spot on. It should be an ideal scenario for property letting, with increasing population/immigration and rents at record levels, but all the investors are leaving the market. The reasons are blatantly obvious.

Sinn Fein are unbelievably cynical and opportunistic. They are objecting to every single large-scale housing development in Dublin, delaying the provision of all types of housing.

I am neither a landlord or tenant, so no skin in the game here - but these are dangerous words from the Taoiseach, essentially telling tenants to overhold if served with an eviction notice.

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2023/03/24/judges-will-be-very-reluctant-to-enforce-evictions-leo-varadkar-says/

Evictions in Ireland can only be ordered by the courts,” Mr Varadkar told journalists on his way into the second day of an EU summit in Brussels this morning.

“People often mix up notices of termination with evictions...and I would expect those numbers to continue to be very small. And I can guarantee you that judges are very reluctant to evict people into homelessness.

The government wasted the Eviction Ban, as it seems they have done nothing during the ban to elevate the problem. Yes they announced some things during the week but for most it maybe too little too late. As soon as they brought in the eviction ban they should have told LA's to get their houses in orders to deal with purchasing, distributing and maintaining the properties, then bring in some of the measures to give tenants first refusal and the LL an option to sell with Tenant in situ, more than likely to the LA's, and start that process within 3 months of the eviction ban coming in and then keep adding more so that when it got to this stage removing the eviction ban wouldn't have been an issue. Also as I said earlier, setting up a cross party committee to agree ways forward to deal with this and this way making everyone in the Dail accountable.

What is there now nearly 5,000 notices of termination have been sent to into the RTB from the third quarter of 2022, thats a lot of people looking for somewhere to live for which there is little supply. I know people will say but those properties will go to someone else to maybe buying but not that's not immediately, for most properties when the tenant leaves the place will have to be made ready for sale and that depending on the state of the place could be a week to a few months to when that property is on the market.