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. Niall Byrne:

That information was for mediations, which is the less adversarial and more informal approach to dispute resolution. For adjudications which are more, "legalistic" might not be the right term, but which are somewhat more formal and based on submission of evidence, in those cases we are looking at longer timeframes because the submission of evidence takes longer and there is more toing and froing regarding facts. The average in those cases can run to around 20 weeks, but in more complex cases the process can run out to about 28 to 30 weeks.