Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 11 June 2013
561. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has considered introducing measures to provide persons who have sites in caravan parks to acquire legal rights, proprietorial or otherwise following a number of years of unbroken payments for the site. [27192/13]
View answer562. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if persons who have sites on caravan parks over a number of years have any fixity of tenure, mechanisms to appeal rents or the ability to assign rights. [27193/13]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 561 and 562 together.
The Residential Tenancies Acts 2004 and 2009 apply to every dwelling that is the subject of a tenancy. The definition of “dwelling” in section 4(1) of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 excludes a structure that is not permanently attached to the ground and a vessel and a vehicle (whether mobile or not). In addition, section 3 of the Act provides that the Act does not apply to dwellings let to a person whose entitlement to occupation is for the purpose of a holiday only. I have no plans to amend the Residential Tenancies Acts in this regard.
I have no function with regard to private commercial agreements between caravan dwellers and the land owners of sites on which such caravans are placed.
