Mr. Tom Dunne:

I completely understand this. It is a business risk that a landlord takes when taking on a tenant that the tenant may not work out. The important point to bear in mind is that in any business or sphere of life, a few people will always cause many problems. If the incidental landlord has borrowed money, perhaps to create a pension fund for himself or herself, or has inherited a house or has a dwelling that he or she put on to the market and the tenant acts in a disruptive way and proves difficult, that costs him or her an enormous sum. That fear is one reason incidental or accidental landlords are getting out of the market. One of the intentions of the legislation was to try to empower landlords to deal with tenants in a timely way. The board has a focus on making sure that the landlord gets a tenant out in as timely a fashion as possible but the board has to work within the law as laid down. That law originates in landlord and tenant law and is influenced by the Constitution where there are strong property rights and rights to protect the home, which people forget. It is difficult for the State to create a law that covers a situation where a landlord can get a tenant out very quickly. I do not think that will ever happen. It remains a business risk for landlords. All the board can do is try to make its dispute resolution processes as efficient and effective as possible and in the event of there being a tenant who has caused trouble that costs the landlord a lot of money-----