Just heard Eamon Ryan on the radio say that the cabinet has agreed that tenants will have a right of first refusal where the landlord is selling up.The idea that a landlord has to offer first refusal to buy to their tenant has been suggested by the Green Party.
How do they think this stuff up ?
Do they want every tenant in the country evicted on 1st April ?
Is such a suggestion constitutional ?
When asked when that would take effect, the Minister said from 1 April 2023.
A rather bemused Bryan Dobson asked whether he expected to have passed the necessary legislation by 1 April?
In response, the Minister insisted that no legislation is required!
You really couldn’t make it up.