Mr. Patrick Davitt:

It is causing issues. Even though the RTB says it has particular staff dealing with the issue to which the Deputy referred, the determination orders, we find the delays are incredible in trying to get staff to even talk to landlords about determination orders and how they can get them. As to the disputes that arise along the way, when the dispute hearing is held, the length of time to come back to the disputers is, if not all of the time then a lot of the time, not inside the timeframe set by the RTB, which is a problem for everybody. There is a huge problem with staffing at the moment because of the fact of the new RTB portal. It has obviously been trying to sort it out but it has been moving a lot of staff to those areas, which is what is causing the problems.