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:

That is one of the arguments in favour of having a deposit retention system because, logically, what would happen is the tenant would have a certificate from that system saying he or she had a deposit and he or she would not need to get the deposit back every time.

There is legislation in place but it has not been enacted. If it is to be enacted at this stage, we want to know the look of it because the circumstances under which that legislation was passed are no longer applicable. It may be that would need to be looked at more again.