Results 1,081-1,100 of 2,180 for speaker:John Cummins
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: The difficulties concerning registration have been discussed, in terms of the system put in place and the difficulties there. The problem landlords have is that they have difficulties with the registration system and they cannot contact the RTB. What would Mr. Byrne say to a landlord who contacted me yesterday to tell me she had several properties, is receiving letters, in the wrong, she...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: Are they in place?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: In light of the feedback the RTB is getting, and not just from me, is it considering increasing staffing again, given the continuing difficulties that the witnesses acknowledged will not be resolved until quarter 2 of next year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: From this meeting, can we say that additional staff will be deployed to this area so that people like the landlord whom I spoke to yesterday will be able to get through to the RTB?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: I am not hearing that the RTB will deploy additional staff to this area.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: I am not hearing that the RTB is going to deploy-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: A level of eight to ten was mentioned. Does that mean the number was four to five?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: We are. I had initially believed that we were on the same track. What level of staffing has the phone line business? I asked this question separately, but Mr. Byrne might have misunderstood it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: The dispute resolution side of matters was a different point and related to eight to ten staff. What level of staffing is in place on the phone lines? If I am a landlord looking to register a tenancy but I experience difficulties trying to phone, what level of staffing is in place?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: The eight to ten.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: Ninety-two are in place on the phone line system.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: I thank Ms Crimin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: I will follow that line of questioning on mediation and adjudication. Mr. Byrne said the average time currently is nine weeks for mediation and 20 weeks for adjudication. If he could stop and start again, what would be the optimum time that he would envisage as appropriate for the mediation process and the adjudication process? I appreciate that the RTB is where it is but I am just trying...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: I am not holding Mr. Byrne to that; I am just genuinely trying to get an idea of what would be a really scenario or space we could get to.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: We will not do that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: I put the same question then about that process.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: I thank Mr. Byrne for that. Reference was made to 8,000 disputes by year end.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: It is heading into that space. From where we are versus the ideal, what would be a reasonable turnaround? If we consider the current National Oversight and Audit Commission, NOAC, indicators for local authority performance on turnarounds and voids, we would say, "The best case is this: we are here now, our target would be to get to here in 2023, with a view to getting there in 2024." Where...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: Looking at a percentage in an ideal scenario is probably a better way to look at it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: If the RTB was willing to write to the committee with any suggestions it had in that space, we would be more than happy to receive them and to feed that into our deliberations which will go on to the Department. I am sure I speak for everyone in that respect. What is the current backlog in the registration process?