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:
Yes, we do. I will let Ms Gallagher explain more about it. I am glad the Chairman asked that question because I wanted to say earlier on behalf of the RTB that we have a very small research resource. One of our other colleagues unfortunately is not well today but he is our research officer. Because he is not well, we have no other research officer to come with us so it falls to Ms Gallagher. We have a very small capacity but we recognise this is an important area. There is huge interest and a big demand. One of my challenges in all of this is how to match demand and interest against the available resource and against all the other responsibilities we have. It is important to make the point that we are not by definition a research agency. However, we commission research and we have a budget for it. There is a committee of the RTB board which oversees the research activities. I will let Ms Gallagher speak about the budget and how we commission research.
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