Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 December 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Mr. Paul Lemass:

I can take the tenancy question, for which I thank the Deputy, very quickly. I should have made the point that the seven referrals to MABS were via the RTB. Deputy O'Donoghue made the legitimate point earlier that people might have gone to MABS of their own volition or were referred by others. I cannot say definitively but under the new legislation, in order to avail of the protections, tenants will be obliged to go through the RTB to get to MABS so we will know exactly what the numbers are at that time. That might help with the demand planning-----