Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 10 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion

Photo of John CumminsJohn Cummins (Fine Gael)
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This session is useful, as is the piece of work that is to be done here. I do not think there is a mystery to this or that there is a host of missing landlords out there. I think it is probably a miscategorisation and a non-catagorisation. I am not sure how the CSO will capture this but there are many people out there who rent from a family member. There is no requirement for them to be over here on the RTB side. They are probably captured in the CSO data because if someone answers the CSO questionnaire, they are a tenant in a rental property, but they will not be in this data set here. I do not think that will be quantifiable. Can that particular piece of information be quantified?