Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 September 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Private Rental Sector: Discussion

Mr. Patrick Davitt:

No matter what administrative level one moves any business to, one will always find that people will get out. There are a certain amount of landlords that are moving out because of the fact that they cannot deal with the RTB. This new portal that the RTB has is obviously a problem. There are many problems in the marketplace and these give rise to the reasons for which landlords will sell. The biggest one is that when tenants leave, landlords cannot charge market rent again. They have been good to a tenant previously and now they are going back into another scenario of six years, at a minimum, and they have to accept the same rent again.

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