Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 February 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Tom Dunne:

I am not sure I understand the question. The whole question of licences is very fraught and has been fraught for donkey's years in this country. What the RTB will do, and adjudicate with the RTB in any particular case brought before it, is it will make a decision about whether what purports to be a licence is or is not a legal licence based on legal precedent. That decision is made in particular circumstances in the event of a dispute.

What one would be very reluctant to do, and I think that there is information carried on the website about the distinctions that might be drawn there between licences and tenancies, and I would advise everybody who is concerned about that to have a look at that guidance, which is on the website. All that I can say is that in any particular case that is brought before the board, whether it is a licence or a tenancy, is-----