Ms Louise Loughlin:

There is a lot of detail in the quarterly publication we provided at the start of the meeting. It details some of the sanctions. We also publish it on our website. We have been working toward looking at the level of sanctions. As I said earlier, the overall volume of sanctions imposed increased significantly in 2024 compared with 2023. We have also been driving a lot of activity at rogue landlords. We published quite a bit on that recently. There was an interview with some of our colleagues in The Irish Times a couple of weeks ago on this very issue and the intricate detail required to pursue landlords who are deliberately evading regulation. They are often deliberately evading regulation by the RTB and by other regulators, including Revenue and others. A range of investigations are ongoing at present in that space, the details of which will be published when we can publish them.

I note that tenants themselves are not regulated in the same way as landlords in that respect. That would be done through the disputes process. If there are rent arrears, generally speaking, the determination order would be for the amount of rent arrears. This would cover other breaches of the tenants' obligations. The regulatory compliance role of the RTB relates to landlords.