Martin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have all seen on television and have witnessed in person the appalling standards of some accommodation and the RTB certainly has a job to do to ensure that is properly policed. Another group who feel forgotten are what Mr. Dunne describes as "incidental landlords" because they were advised for whatever reason to buy a second property. They have difficulty evicting tenants and find their properties wrecked. The only comeback they have is the deposit. I am not talking about big landlords with multiple properties because they just take the good with the bad but where people are struggling to pay the mortgage on a property and thousands of euro worth of damage is done, they feel disenfranchised. The RTB has significant work to do to convince incidental landlords that it is a fair and level playing pitch.