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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: What was the average time for adjudication?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: What was it for tribunals?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Government has proposed some very significant changes to the Residential Tenancies Act in terms of security of tenure, definitions of landlords and the rent pressure zones. To what extent has the RTB been consulted on the detail of those? Regardless of one's view of those changes, they are quite complex, particularly the different definitions of landlords and the different security of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Would that have been after the publication of the details post-Cabinet or would the RTB have been involved prior to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am out of time but I might come back to that in the next round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: In these sessions, we often focus on perceived problems or challenges. It is much better to have a Residential Tenancies Board than to not have one. It is important that people hear that. In many other jurisdictions, there is still only one recourse for dispute resolution, that is, the courts, which are expensive and time-consuming. While we often focus on delays, some of the data the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have another question, which I know Deputy Hearne asked earlier. Is there any intention to do some follow-up work with the CSO on that gap? Obviously, the RTB and the CSO did some very good work but the situation has moved on since then. It would be useful to get a sense of whether that gap has narrowed or grown between the 2022 CSO data and the RTB's current registration data.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I presume the RTB has some level of granular detail that allowed it to initially identify the 47,000 properties, or whatever it was, and the two categories they were divided into. Is there any way to look back on those? I know there is a limit to the data the RTB can access from the CSO data sets but we should try to establish what happened with those 47,000. Did some end up registering?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: It was not allowed identify them to the RTB but it must be able to do some analysis itself and then aggregate those findings in a way that is compliant with the GDPR.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: If we knew in advance when the quarterly reports were coming out, we might be able to schedule a meeting to coincide with that. This would mean the RTB would get a public airing of its report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2025: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have four very quick questions. I have no issue with the regulations at all. When we first dealt with the street furniture issue during Covid, what was done was very much welcomed. However, one of the issues that came up with local authorities related to concerns around insurance in the context of accidents, liability and so on. Has that continued to be raised by local authorities in...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I appreciate that these things take time, but the Minister is essentially saying that it could be almost a year between the formation of the Government and the actual new target being given to local authorities. I know they can start doing some preparatory work, but until they have the targets they cannot formally start the material alterations to the development plans. Is the Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2025: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: There was just the technical question about Oireachtas approval. Is that because, unlike the exempted development regulations, there are fees involved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2025: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is fine. It would be interesting to know.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 362. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of renters claiming the renters tax credit in 2024 and to date in 2025, by year, by local authority, and average value of credit per local authority. [39446/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 567. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities have been issued with the new housing needs demand assessment population and housing targets; and if so, if he will publish them with a breakdown for each local authority, in tabular from. [38966/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Responsibilities (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 568. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the powers that have been delegated to the Ministers of State in his Department and to set out what those powers are. [38967/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 569. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average processing time for stage 1 approvals for applications to the Social Housing Investment Programme received in the past 12 months. [38968/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 570. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average processing time for stage 1 approvals for applications to the capital advance leasing facility received in the past 12 months. [38969/25]