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:

One of the great benefits of annual registration is we might be able to - it will take a year for this stuff to come through but when it does comes through - discern the extent to which that is happening in the marketplace. Right now, a landlord advertises a property for rent and gives an indication of the rent that he or she intends to charge. If it is in a rent pressure zone, RPZ, that rent should be the same as the rent charged to the previous tenant, assuming nothing has changed. We do not know what happens there at the moment but with annual registration, we should be in a position to discern from the information we have the extent to which landlords are exceeding RPZs.