Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Current Housing Demand: Discussion

2:40 pm

Mr. Ned Brennan:

In our opinion the PRTB will not be able to do that. There is a different set of tenancies with which it has no experience. It is a whole new area for the board. Given the halving of its staff, those who remain will have a sharp learning curve in getting to understand the operations of the social rental sector, which is utterly different from the private rental sector. We do not think it is a good fit.