Results 20,041-20,060 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: I do not want to go into that kind of detail. I do not have the time.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: In other words, when it comes to the data that the RTB has and on which we are supposed to rely, if a significant number are topping up, then the RTB data are not reliable. Would Ms Gallagher accept that is potentially the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage last week gave us a figure of 28% in 2017 or 2018. There is no reason to think that practice has discontinued. If anything it has increased. There is an unreliability about the data on the rents being paid. The RTB is not able to capture that because it is relying on the landlord to provide it with the information.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: I understand this from a tenant's perspective because I deal with them day in, day out. The thing is that it does not get declared.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: What I am looking at is the reliability of the rents. We are told that the RTB is the most reliable source because they are the actual rents paid but in fact they are not the rents paid in many cases where people are topping up and that is not being declared. My next question is on rent pressure zones and the RTB's function. I noted there was a high level of satisfaction with tenants but...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: I know.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: Maybe the RTB could give us a paper or some notes on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: The new database that the RTB will use will be of much value in the information that we will be able to extract from it. What is the primary reason for the increase in cost and it taking longer than anticipated?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: That is a fact. We know that. Can Mr. Byrne tell us why?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: Mr. Byrne has taken a minute of my time, or nearly, and I have not got an answer.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: Just cut to the answer.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: Was it under spec, therefore?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: Does the board have any role in controlling rents?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: How many cases have there been where tenants have taken a case to the RTB?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: I thank Ms Gallagher.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: I want to focus on two particular issues. In regard to the difference between corporate landlords and the individual landlord, from what we can see the rents of the corporate landlords are higher. Is the RTB gathering information in that regard? One of the criticisms is that corporate landlords can leave properties vacant and increase demand as a consequence. Is that an aspect that the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: That is not the basis on which I am asking that question. The RTB is giving the Department information relating to the amount of rent somebody is paying. In many cases, the Department knows, and its representatives told us this last week, that 28% of people are topping up that payment. The information that is being given to the RTB is wrong in a substantial number of cases because it is...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: However, that is not the rent that is paid.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: To be honest-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: -----Mr. Dunne cannot be right about this. Tenants would be refused HAP if the correct amount of rent was notified to the RTB.