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:

Yes, I suppose, but for the purpose of the research, it was a nationally representative sample. We have tried to mirror that in the numbers we have surveyed. We have 500 small landlords, 250 medium and a smaller number of larger ones. It is a representative sample. It was an additional piece of work where, having contacted the landlords and learning they had left, we included them. We also had focus groups with landlords who had left the sector to bring that additional qualitative element in. With a survey like that, you get a one-dimensional response but we did have a focus group as part of the first survey as well to delve into some of the deeper issues.