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 am looking at those circumstances that came to our attention in May 2021. I was not with the RTB then but have been reviewing the records of those concerns raised with us concerning potentially unregistered tenancies. We have looked at all 142 that were conveyed to us and established that we are down to 56 tenancies, of which we think about 40 are lapsed tenancies that were previously registered. There are 17 where we do not know the current situation and are working to determine the position. We have followed through on them all. This tells us the situation is not as bad as the residents thought it was. There are registered tenancies in a number of those properties. Some were not required to be registered and are outside the regulatory framework and a number that were unregistered have since registered.