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. Niall Byrne:

In terms of outcome, the student-specific accommodation is registered with the RTB and students then have rights, under the legislation, to bring disputes to the RTB if they are not satisfied or believe that their rights are being infringed in some way by the operator of that accommodation. That register is on our website. That provides protections for students in their particular kind of circumstance, which is somewhat different from people who might be renting more long term as opposed to student-specific accommodation. That is all in place under the legislation and the protections are there.