Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (Resumed)
3:00 pm
Ms Rosemary Steen:
The details of that will be published shortly on our website. We are hoping it will be later this week.
As director, I would say that we take all of these complaints very seriously in the work that is done and we follow up on them very actively. As part of the campaign that we intend to run, I have written to the chief executives of the counties identified in the CSO work to stress the cost to landlords of being fined for potential non-compliance with registration. Those communications campaigns are running through the autumn to clarify that if someone is in a formal arrangement, it needs to be registered. We hope to provide information to narrow the gap further.
It is important that we have material that is as accurate as possible for a whole range of reasons concerning compliance. As director, I am looking at other potential aspects of fines under the new legislation that could assist us in our work in this area, and we might come back to that later.