Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for their presentation. I know that most of the RTB's dealings are between tenants and landlords and there is a proposal here around the receivers and the banks. How would the RTB see that sort of an engagement? I am curious how that would work and I can understand the reason for it being here because we are obviously encountering this more and more. Can the RTB fill us in on that? It is interesting that an awful lot of the cases that we get, as the witnesses probably heard, are people who come to us about sale of property and about the landlords. How does the RTB find it to deal with landlords? Does the RTB discover that some of them are possibly selling to reconnect with another tenant etc.? Does the RTB find that this is out there? We certainly find it out there in our clinics and some landlords are just saying they are selling. We need to get to the bottom of the issue of the definition of a family member, which is very well needed, because this is being used so much. How much of an advantage would having a proper register give the RTB?

On landlords who are not registered, does the RTB deal with that situation much? As far as I can see, it is not very common but we have had issues with people who have not been registered as landlords.