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:

I suppose we are balancing different kinds of considerations there, are we not, in terms of the data, why it is shared, how it is shared and for what purposes? What we are outlining there is the current position. Should it be different? Could it be different? That is a consideration and there is a policy aspect to that which would be more for the Department than for ourselves.

As my colleague says, we do not operate a rent register as such that is in the public domain. That is the situation at the moment. We are constrained by that.