Some of the country’s biggest home builders have warned the Government its proposed rental sector reforms are unconstitutional and threatened legal action if they fail to engage with them on it. The property developers warned Minister for Housing James Browne and Tánaiste Simon Harris that the Government’s proposed reforms are inconsistent with both the Irish Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). They have held out the prospect of taking legal action should the Minister for Housing fail to engage with them prior to the legislation’s introduction on March 1st next. As part of that letter which he copied to Simon Harris, Mr Daly enclosed a legal opinion produced by his company’s legal advisers, Byrne Wallace Shields. The measure, which would not apply to landlords with three tenancies or fewer, would, according to Mr Daly’s legal advice, represent an “unjust attack” on a large landlord’s property rights under the Constitution.
