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
Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
What we see now when people get notices to quit is that they feel they will be out with nowhere to go. I have heard stories of where local authorities have advised people who have reached their date to be out to overstay. I personally know many people who have overstayed, are overstaying or will overstay if they cannot find alternative accommodation. When a person overstays, the landlord has to take legal action to bring that person to court.
Does the RTB get involved at that stage? Does the landlord go to the RTB to say that tenants are overstaying, that they are still paying their rent, that there are no issues or antisocial behaviour, but that they have nowhere else to go?
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