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:

The RTB is aware that, for a landlord, serving or preparing a notice can be complex. There are some full notices on our website, as well as information for tenants on their rights in relation to security of tenure and how a landlord is supposed to serve a notice. That information is on our website. I take the Deputy's point on the complexity of it but we do not have a role. We receive those and will be reporting on the data, as we have done regarding previous notices of termination we have received. As of July, we receive them all because the landlord is obliged to send them to us but we do not check the validity of them and a tenant can, in any case, bring that to us as well.