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:

That is a progressive approach to improvement in circumstances where there is considerable complexity and many things are unknown. The process is subject to quite complex rules and procedures. If it were possible for the RTB to work and engage successfully with the Department in the interim on reform of the legislation to allow for streamlining of some of these processes to make them more efficient while still maintaining the rights of all of the parties, proper legal compliance, fair procedures etc. it would be very beneficial. There is scope for simplification and the removal of unnecessary steps in the process that, if we were writing it all from scratch now, we would not feel were necessary. That is another improvement.

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