Conor Sheehan
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168 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 21 Aug
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And the fact of the matter is, what you're talking about here is pushing...
16,000 Ukrainian refugees into an overheated rental market.
And that, in our view, puts them at risk of homelessness.
And it's going to make the rental market even hotter for all renters.
And the fact of the matter is, is that the war is still ongoing.
And while we are a militarily neutral country, we're not a politically neutral country.
And I and my colleagues in the Labour Party see this as our contribution towards, you know, our act of solidarity towards Ukraine and the Ukrainian cause.
So you think we should keep paying to keep these people in accommodation?
Well, I think certainly we shouldn't be ending it as soon as we are because you're talking about... Well, when should we end it?
Well, when there is a material change in the situation in Ukraine, it's still a live theatre of war.
There's still critical infrastructure being destroyed.
I met a man a couple of weeks ago from Mariupol and he can't go back there because one, it's the party he was in is under Russian occupation and two, it's actually been completely destroyed.
So we need to make sure that we don't do something that will lead to more people entering homelessness.
Well, I'm concerned about this, Clare, because basically under the rental room scheme, and it's envisaged that if these units are allowed to be rented out, that the tenant would be treated as such under the rental room scheme, which means the tenant is treated as a licensee, which means you have fewer rights as tenants.
as opposed to a tenant who would come under the cartilage of the RTB Act.
So if you're a renter at the moment, particularly if you're a renter with a new tenancy, you have the six years security of tenure, but you won't have that
if you are renting out one of these modular units under the rent-a-room scheme.
And the reason for that is because basically, if you were to rent out a modular unit at the rear of your property to me and then sell your house, if I came under the cartilage of the RTB Act, then...
I would have to be left there and sold at your house, essentially.
Well, the argument I would make is that some people would talk about investing up to 80,000 and they can invest up to 80,000, but not every landlord is actually going to do that.
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