Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 November 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protections) Bill 2018: Discussion

9:30 am

Ms Rosalind Carroll:

The Deputy's first question is on how many cases. He is right in the sense that it is a handful but it is difficult for us to know because student accommodation is not a category when landlords register. It is difficult for us to identify cases. Given the recent history, say over the last six to 12 months, and with us trying to look at the issue, it is probably a new phenomenon. My sense is that the Deputy is correct that it is a handful of cases. As an organisation with responsibility for registration of tenancies, regardless of the student accommodation piece we have been in court a number of times about licences versus tenancies. Apart from the student accommodation piece, it is an issue about which we have been to court a number of times. We have a history of trying to prove-----

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