Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 December 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion

Mr. Zak Murtagh:

The Supreme Court judgment was something I deeply did not want to talk about today, but I will and am happy to do so. It is a complex decision that has ramifications for quasi-judicial bodies across the board. As per Mr. Justice O'Donnell's decision, the core area of this is the administration of justice in public and the absolute importance of that. This draft legislation is proposing special circumstances where hearings could be held in the RTB and determination orders that come out of those hearings could be redacted on a certain level. Our position in Threshold is that it is imperative at the moment, given what is going on in the private rental sector, that as much attention as possible is put on the RTB's decisions and what they mean-----

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