Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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I have a further query for the purposes of clarification. For example, the income of the Residential Tenancies Board comes from landlords' registration fees. Landlords who registered paid the registration fee and were legally right in what they did; it is the landlords who do not register are the problem. The ones who registered were told that the fee was €150 or whatever it was. Now the RTB has to go back and state the fee should have been €155 or €160. That is a highly unusual position for an organisation to find itself in. Essentially, in the absence of the RTB being able to do so, I am concerned that it may affect its ability to deliver in its gigantic body of work, the volume of which is greater than it is currently able to carry out in a timely way.