Mr. Brian Gallwey:

The introduction of our new tenancy management system and annual registration gives us the power to understand what is happening with the landlords in greater detail. Landlords are verified at the point of registration by their personal public service number, PPSN, so we know exactly who the landlords are. If it is a company, we know exactly who they are by their Company Registration Office, CRO, numbers. Over the last year, we have seen the number of private landlords associated with registered tenancies increase by just over 1% - 1.5%, I think - to 104,000. The majority of them are landlords that have just one tenancy.

They comprise 66% of all registered landlords. While they make up the majority of landlords, they only provide about 25% of tenancies. On the other end of the scale, the Senator talked about larger landlords. There are only 121 or so large landlords, those being, landlords with more than 100 tenancies. At a national level, they provide about 13.5% of all tenancies. In Dublin, it is a very different picture where larger landlords provide 27% and smaller landlords provide a smaller proportion. In different parts of the country, there are different-sized landlords providing units. That has been changing significantly. Since our data series began in quarter 2 of 2023, we have seen the proportion of tenancies provided by these large landlords increase significantly from 9.5% to 13.5%. Predominantly, that has been driven by new builds in Dublin.