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

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

I hope not, as I gave the Deputy latitude there. I have one final question concerning the end of the dispute resolution process, be it through mediation, adjudication or tribunal. Witnesses referenced the quasi-judicial nature of the RTB. Whatever about the frustrations on both the landlord and the tenant sides about the timelines for the RTB making a decision on a case, there is probably even more frustration about the fact that is not the end of the process. Have there been discussions between the RTB and the Departments of justice and housing about streamlining the end of the process, either by the RTB decision being binding or the decision being implemented in short order? Attached to that, recent criticism was levelled at the RTB about the formal notification of the decision delaying that process.

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