Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Amendment No. 80 concerns late registration and provides for a refinement of section 137(6) of the 2004 Act, which relates to the fee for late registration of tenancies and is subject to amendment by section 15 of the Bill. Currently, under the Act, the late fee amounts to an extra €90. That is a doubling of the registration fee. With the move to annual registration, the Bill provided for a late fee of a once-off extra €20, that is, an extra 50% was added to the annual registration fee of €40. Upon reflection, following the discussion we had here, it is now proposed to more strongly incentivise compliance with the requirement to register tenancies with the RTB by applying a late fee of €10 for every month or part thereof where registration remains outstanding. That will continue and build and build.