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THE BODY responsible for collecting registrations for mandatory inspections of septic tanks says over 8,000 households have so far registered.
8,169 properties had registered for the inspections, which are required under laws introduced in February, as of 9am this morning.
A spokeswoman for the Local Government Management Agency said the number included those who had registered for the inspections online, at protectourwater.ie, and those who had mailed a registration directly to the agency’s offices.
The number does not include the number of households which had registered for their inspections in their local council offices in the last couple of days, whose applications may not yet have been processed.
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The 8,169 figure represents about 1.65 per cent of the total number of households which have septic tanks or some other form of on-site water treatment system.
Last year’s census showed there were just under half a million homes which had their own waste treatment systems.
Households which register for the mandatory inspection within three months of registrations opening are entitled to a discounted fee of €5, compared to a usual cost of €50 which will kick in after September 28.
The introduction of the legislation to enforce the inspections was marked by controversy, with opposition parties disputing government claims that the laws needed to be enacted by mid-February in order to avoid EU fines.
Despite this, the Department of the Environment confirmed in April that the registrations had been delayed due to unforeseen circumstances – with registration finally opening on June 26.
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@Paul: the vast majority of landlords are one or two properties. Are they building houses? Try keep up. Get them greedy shower reduced and there are a lot more available for ordinary people to buy. Only showing up your ignorance by throwing out insults. I’d say you are a landlord
@Sal Paradise: what happens to all the people who want to buy properties that have been hoovered up by landlords? Screw them? For profit and greed?
Anyway where did I say landlords should be eliminated?
@Fr. Fintan Stack: The issue isn’t one or two properties landlords those are badly needed, it’s the corporations who buy houses and apartments in bulk for the sole purpose of renting them at high prices. You aren’t very bright are you? More like jealous I assume.
@Alex: Not the only issue but, one or two propertiy landlords own the vast majority of rented properties. And the majority of renters want to own their own home. Maybe you are not very good at maths. But one of the main reasons these tenants are forced in to renting is because of the huge combined property portfolio of landlords, big and small. But for you lot it’s down to preserving the status quo, I suppose, so you can reap the rewards of someone else struggle.
@Clare Power: maybe you don’t understand one of the main reasons why prices are so high in secondhand houses and properties are not within reach of a huge proportion of buyers. Not the only reason by any means.
@bruce banner: We wouldn’t be in this mess if FG/FF hadn’t caused the Housing Crisis, we’ve been discussing this problem on the Journal for over ten years and now we have a shortfall of a quarter of a million homes, its getting woyear on year and I’m afraid its not going to improve under the aforementioned parties who caused this dire situation in the first place.
@Clare Power: You can’t buy what isn’t for sale and only one third of new homes are put on general sale. The rest are social housing/Government funded NGO housing charities or institutional investors
@Clare Power: ‘You can afford it or you can’t’ would work if we didn’t have a huge supply and demand issue. I know more than a few with a deposit saved who’ve gotten approval but are competing with so many other people to buy. It’s not just an affordability issue.
The 18-covids kid! And why does he have the posture of Theresa May? In saying that, it doesn’t seem to be a priority for the people as his party been returned with (landlord) Independents and Labour propping up FFG at local authorities across the country.
@brian o’leary: I know plenty of landlords or trolls as you so politely put it…not one of them sitting back…all out working hard, after all more than likely the reason they can afford a second property.
@Clare Power: no, the reason they can afford a second property is because someone else is paying the second mortgage in most cases. Could they afford the second or third property on their regular day job that they are all working so hard in?
Of course the entirely predictable consequence of this is that many landlords will ditch the students and get in full time workers instead..rent for 52 weeks unhindered and not have your house potentially trashed every year by half-feral students, problem solved. Yet another dumb government initiative that’s gonna make the situation worse not better!
@Jonn: All the recent governments are driving landlords out, starting with bed sits. Just look at Daft for properties for sale in any of the big towns or cities and see how many are ex- rentals. It’s complicated enough renting to employed tenants, who would touch students or hap?
@brian o’leary:
Yeah, that too, but either way it’s students..and their parents..who’ll pay the price! Less student accommodation, and what is there will become even more expensive. Nice job of work,government!
@Jim Connolly:
The more government’s have meddled in the rental market under pressure from clueless far left TDs the more dysfunctional the market has become..and still they meddle!? Who would be a renter, or a landlord?
@Jonn: If the government left rented housing to the free market and stopped meddling new landlords would purchase rental properties with all the deposit accounts that are lying in the banks getting miniscule interest and the cost to tenants would reduce significantly. However this won’t happen because the government are competing with the left wingers just to be popular.
@Jim Connolly: Too many landlords as it is. Yes, we need a certain amount. Vast number of people in rented accommodation want to purchase their own home, but can’t. With landlords and even councils outbidding and having bigger deposits and buying in bulk, the ordinary person hasn’t a chance of purchasing. Government should disincentivise more landlords coming in to the market.
Home ownership has now become a business at the expense of the little guy/girl.
@Padraic O’ Sullivan: i had my account banned back in 2021 for telling an Israel defender that she’s a supporting child murderers. I wonder where these people/Journal admins are now.
There will be a lot of people complaining about this that voted for ffg in the recent election knowing well that they are an incompetent bunch of gombeens
Till we personal question the global agenda we will never solve our housing problems and other issues in our country.
I don’t understand why they want to squeeze us so much to get the global agenda in place. Just admit there a global policy and stop running a long side it a local policy that can never be implemented unless we say no to the global one just pick up and be done with it.
This was Harris’s portfolio before he became the Lucky Bag Taoiseach & as in all his Ministries, he bamboozles everyone with talk but achieves nothing ! It’s deliberately done to delay bringing in any change & is now too late for parents like ourselves who have already had to pay out for a full year, as there is no student accommodation & a shortage of digs. This week we have seen the Justice Minister Helen Mc Entee, who Harris backed to the hilt, fail victims of crime getting Justice. Nobody trusts the Gardai, Judiciary or Minister for Justice, no reforms of the Judiciary/Legal Golden Circle. Harris is well able to have Gardai arrest & jail those who protest against them but ordinary citizens are abandoned by him. Harris has reverted back to his woke politics, a spoofer.
If this was really a priority it could be done today. At this point the pretence that the government actually wants to make things better for tenants is insulting.
Jesus. Will these layabout TD’s just do the bloody jobs they are supposed to do.They can enact stupid laws through the Dáil quickly when it suits them but laws to help the people…forget it.If the law enactment is behind schedule stay the extra few days and do the extra work needed. Just effing do your jobs.
Simon Harris condemns the Aer Lingus pilots for sticking to their signed contract duties and not doing additional overtime work or answering their work phones while on personal time ,but had no problem buggering off with all elected ministered while this issue remains u solved.
So the landlords have learned from the agribusinesses and aviation companies and are now using lobbyists and PR companies to influence government. What chance do Joe and Mary soap have?
It’s all about greed! It doesn’t matter if you are Itrish or not… An Irish citizen or not… An Irish politician or not… A majority of people in Ireland think only of themselves, their is no compassion for others in none tragic situations. As a result, there’s loads of vampire cowboys that are in this country and outside this country preying on anyone they can. A person may be safe in this country from gun violence, war and violence…. But one isn’t safe from folks preying on our hard earned money.
Landlords of student specific buildings usually run by international operators got tax relie, fast track planning and exemptions. They are only allowed to rent to students and they can rent to different students over the summer. They are just too lazy and greedy now, taking advantage of the housing crisis.
History is repeating itself in ireland… except it ain’t the brits this time… its the tech industry big pharma and the globalists who now control our country… all for capitalists greed
The housing crisis is a supply issue primarily. This legislation along with the short term letting ban would guarantee thousands of units of accommodation are empty for three or four months a year. Let the market sort itself, and being back bedsits and budget rooms.
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