Mr. Liam Smyth:

The RTB itself has proposed it and we hope to bring it through the Houses. The rationale is fairness. As it is, the slip rule is used very rarely when it comes to notices of termination. There have been cases that have been invalidated by adjudicators because similar slips occurred in documents that are required to accompany a notice of termination, such as statements, declarations and rent arrears warning notices. We want to tie this together and have each one looked at fairly. It will go to an adjudicator to decide what is immaterial to validity. As it is, we could have a situation where a case is referred on day 90 and it has to go through the RTB dispute resolution mechanism. Quite an amount of time then goes by for a landlord who has genuinely tried to follow the law and made one slip. Fairness is what it is trying to achieve.