asked the Minister for the Environment when it is intended to introduce a scheme of tenants rights to protect the interests of the vast majority of tenants who currently enjoy no such protection.
Written Answers. - Tenants Rights Scheme.
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Presumably, the Deputy is referring to tenants in private rented accommodation. The question of tenants' rights under the Landlord and Tenant Code is one for the Minister for Justice. In so far as my Department is concerned, the Housing (Private Rented Dwellings) Act, 1982 and regulations made under that Act provide tenants of formerly controlled rented dwellings with security of tenure and the right to rent books, and require landlords to register the dwellings with the local authority and to maintain the dwellings to specified minimum physical standards. By-laws made by local authorities under section 70 of the Housing Act, 1966 lay down minimum physical standards for other private rented dwellings. The private rented sector is currently being reviewed with particular reference to rent books and physical standards.