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

Ms Caren Gallagher:

The RTB shares data with the Revenue Commissioners but we do not currently have a data exchange back in that regard. I do not have the figures to hand. There are two pieces of information I can provide to the committee. One was a recent report carried out by the Central Statistics Office, CSO. We provided data to the CSO and worked with it on that report on the private rental sector last year. It had some cross-data comparisons, so I can pull those figures for the Deputy. Also, an aspect of that was covered in our survey information last year, which was a nationally representative survey of landlords, tenants and letting agents, and we asked that of the tenants. I can pull that figure and update the committee. I will just get it out of the report. We captured it and asked for some information on the percentage of tenants and if they were receiving rental subsidies, including HAP and RAS, as mentioned by the Deputy.