Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 29 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board

Mr. Niall Byrne:

We do not have any function in advertising. That is not something that falls to us. We publish the RTB rent index which, as we explained earlier, is authoritative based on extensive data available to the board. It is analysed on our behalf by the analytical expertise of the ESRI and published on this basis. We will not comment on any other indices that may be out there. We stand over our own. What is advertised is not a matter directly to do with us. We are not in a position to comment on it. The Government has introduced provisions but it will not fall to the RTB to identify short-term lets. My understanding is that it will fall to Fáilte Ireland to register them. I hope they are seen to come onto the rental market. They would be a valuable source of supply if it proves to be the case that there many of them out there.

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