Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 July 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion

3:00 pm

Mr. Owen Keegan:

We will continue to publish those new increases but we are looking at creating a composite. For example, if people want to know what the average rent is in rental properties, that is a question we cannot answer at the moment because we have the new tenancies and existing rents and properties move between the two. We are looking at that. Separately, work is under way by the ESRI to look at our existing data to create a kind of panel of identical properties to track rents in identical properties over time. This is critical to being able to measure the impact of RPZ restrictions. The way our indices are compiled does not allow us to be definitive about it the moment.