Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (Resumed)
3:00 pm
Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
I am taking the next slot. That is an interesting line of questioning that I wish to pursue. We all know from canvassing houses and knocking on doors that we often do not get an answer. I presume the CSO field workers also have the same experience. The scenario Deputy Ó Broin painted is that somebody renting a room within a property is a slightly different scenario from a lot of housing where the granny flat out the back is accessed by the side gate. How much, if any, of that was captured? People can knock on the front door. There is no requirement to check if there is any other form of dwelling type attached to the back or anything like that. The field officers would not be tasked with doing that, would they? There is nowhere on the main household section of the form to capture whether there is another dwelling out the back. Is that part of the question?
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