Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 10 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion

Photo of John CumminsJohn Cummins (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----that will not be there. I suggest that there is a significant cohort in that space. That is along with what the Chair spoke of with AHBs and licences in terms of rent-a-room and so on. I think that will get you a long way towards the figure. Dr. Byrne mentioned a sample size of 146 and he accepted Senator Fitzpatrick's point.

It is a very small sample of 0.04% or 0.06%, depending on which data set it is being compared to, of the 146 that were examined. While I am not for one second suggesting there are not landlords who do not register a property - we are not fools, of course there are and there is probably a cohort - but it is not anything like the figure that has been suggested. Would Dr. Byrne care to comment on that?

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