Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 July 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion
3:00 pm
Mr. Owen Keegan:
The target timeline is about eight weeks for mediation and 16 weeks for both the adjudication and the tribunal so I would be very happy to get to those first. I would say they are a ceiling on what could be achieved. We have to be clear. We are dealing with a 6% increase in the number of disputes we are getting since 2019. This year to date, disputes are up 10% so we have been dealing with a significant increase. While our resources have increased, they always seem to be lagging behind the increase. A lot of improvements are in hand at the moment and we believe we will begin to see a gradual reduction. About 40% of our disputes are dealt with by mediation, with 50% of those being successful, so mediation is by far the fastest route. We are down close to eight weeks already.
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