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

Mr. Tom Dunne:

The Deputy makes a good point. If we look at any property market or market for rental, when we get down to difference in spatial issues within a city and issues around a country that is quite diverse, and we have one big city, a couple of other smaller cities and then large country towns, the issues are very different in those. It is only when we get the details. This is one of the reasons we are very happy to see annual registration. With annual registration, we should be able to start throwing off disaggregated details in order that we can examine what happens in a big market like Dublin and a smaller market elsewhere. I would go so far as to say that the policy solutions need to be conscious of that. That is a matter for this institution.