Conor Sheehan

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The Claire Byrne Show · Policy change in the rent-a-room relief scheme · 21 Apr 2026 podcast

And we have seen examples over the years of substandard rental accommodation, modular type accommodation.

rental accommodation garages sheds etc we've all seen it on on daft and i think that this is going to open the back door to poor quality expensive units um of which the rent will not now be capped because they're going to raise the threshold let's have a word with barry ward about this that is the concern isn't it that you'll have tenants in the hen house what do you say

Because it's pretty much the same thing.

I'm not opposed to the rent-a-room scheme, Clare, nor am I opposed to more flexibility when it comes to exempted development.

And just in relation to that point,

The revised exempted development guidelines have been delayed a number of times, and we do need to go through these in great detail at the Housing Committee in relation to what's exactly being proposed.

My issue here is in relation to enforcement, because these units are going to be exempt from planning permission.

So it's going to be quite difficult to pinpoint accurately where they are.

And how we know that we have a balance in this country between the landlord and between the tenant.

We have a fairly weak system of tenant rights.

And how are you going to be able to enforce, number one, that these units are of a decent standard?

And number two, that the landlord is actually, as Barry said, is the intention that the landlord would live in the house.

I think this is absolutely rife for exploitation in my view.

But if it's attached to the house, it is part of the house.

If you're talking about a modular unit at the rear of the property, it's a separate physical entity, which you are now stating is going to be treated as though it were part of the house, which means that any potential tenant there is going to have a very weak...

system of protections, because they won't come over.

Well, Clare, I think, and I said at the outset of the interview, that I welcome more flexibility around exempted development.

But the issue I have here is that I believe that this could potentially be exploited.

We have seen numerous examples over the years of substandard rental accommodation in sort of sheds, basically in converted garages.

We saw an example that the

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