Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 29 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board

Ms Caren Gallagher:

That is partly an answer to Deputy Ó Broin's point on the estimation process because landlords do not always inform the RTB when tenancies end. They should but they do not always, so sometimes there are tenancies still active on our register that are not still in place. Previously, when tenancies were four or six years' duration, that would have been a natural ending because they would have come off the register and we could see there was an inflation of registration numbers and hence we undertook the estimation process. That is how we actually accessed those landlords to contact them.