Our Annual Knowledge Report 2024 is now available for viewing. This is the ninth year that the A&L Goodbody Knowledge team has published its report looking at the year’s key legal developments and those in the pipeline for 2025. For the first time, the report has been produced as a digital publication.
The report covers
The Government published the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024 (the Bill) on 27 September 2024. It introduces amendments to the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019 and the Affordable Housing Act 2021. The primary objectives of the Bill are to ensure the permanent registration of Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs), redefine
We posted in May that the general scheme of the Planning and Development (Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones) Bill 2022 (the General Scheme) had been published by Government.
The Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage (the Committee) has just published its report (the Report) on its Pre-Legislative Scrutiny
The Department of Housing has this month launched a consultation process on the role of the Private Rental Sector (PRS) in Government’s housing policy and the wider economy. The Department’s press release and the consultation paper can be found here. Some of the key points noted in the consultation paper are as
The Irish Government recently published the general scheme, or initial outline, of the Planning and Development (Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones) Bill 2023 (the Bill).
The Bill is a key component of the Government’s “Housing for All” plan and proposes to introduce mechanisms for both land value sharing (LVS) and
The European Commission has approved, under EU State Aid rules, the Irish Government’s proposed €450 million scheme to support the construction of apartments to be sold to owner-occupiers. The scheme, know as the Croí Cónaithe (Cities) Scheme, aims to bridge the current “viability gap” where the cost of building apartments is higher than its market
Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin, TD has today (Wednesday 7 December) announced that the Government has approved the priority drafting of the Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill.
This is another initiative provided for in the Government’s Housing for All policy and Minister Martin was joined at today’s announcement
28 July 2022 has been appointed as the commencement date for section 6(2)(c) of the Affordable Housing Act 2021.
This is the provision of the Act which allows a housing authority to enter into arrangements with the Land Development Agency for the purposes of making homes available for sale to eligible applicants under affordable dwelling
Further provisions of the Land Development Agency Act 2021 have been commenced with effect from 31 March 2022, as follows: