Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 February 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Niall Byrne:

No, it is €15,000 plus €15,000 in costs. That mechanism is new and relatively untried. Although we are very active in that space, it is still relatively untried as a new provision. There is scope to further develop those mechanisms to give us tools and techniques that are much more effective in terms of timeliness. It is important that we would pursue that with the Department. One of our functions is to review the legislation and advise the Department on necessary changes. We will have learnings from that activity that may require us to ask the Department to enhance it further. Therefore, we might very rarely be in the courts. We may be much further back upstream changing behaviour as opposed to asking a District Court judge to make a finding in a case that he or she might think is not terribly serious in the grand scheme of things.

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