Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Patrick Davitt:
Yes, I believe this. Many times the IPAV has called for section 23 to come back again to incentivise landlords to come into the market. While I am aware of the figures Deputy Stanley quoted from one year ago that there were extra landlords in the market and there were extra tenants in the market, if we go back many years before that we will find that from 2021 to 2023 we lost some 400,000 landlords. Those figures are with the PRTB. We can look at one year if we want to, if that is really what we are going to be looking at in the rental market, but it is a lot longer than one year and the history is a lot longer than that. We need to bring people back into the market.