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- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Brian Stanley: It is a penalty of up to €4,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Brian Stanley: In terms of advice to the Government, we have a role with this development. This is only one area where there is a gaping hole in the legislation. I will now call members in the rotation starting with Deputy 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) Brian Stanley: On the deposit issue, that was the largest area of issues raised and complaints to the RTB. On deposits at the moment, as I understand it, the deposit is paid and the landlord holds it. Is there any situation where the RTB holds it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Brian Stanley: Would the system we have be in line with best practices in northern European countries or is out of sync with them?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Brian Stanley: I note in the documents supplied that the RTB seems to favour a different system where it would be lodged independently.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Brian Stanley: Who would hold it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Brian Stanley: The legislation is there but Government has not activated it yet.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Brian Stanley: Again, I do not want to put words in Mr. Byrne's mouth, but from what he said in the documentation, he indicated strongly that he would strongly favour a deposit retention scheme.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Brian Stanley: Does Mr. Byrne agree that, considering the largest area of complaints to the RTB is disputes, it is an area that needs to be addressed by Government?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Brian Stanley: I understand there might be justifiable reasons and that can be complex. However, where tenants have deposits withheld even though they feel they have done everything correctly during the term of the tenancy, including, as I have seen with long-term tenants, where there were no breakages and only literally the normal wear and tear over a number of years, and they need the deposits to move on...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Brian Stanley: The fee for an ordinary tenancy in €90. Was there a mention of that being reduced to €40? Why would we do that? At the moment, the RTB is not self-financing. Some 40% of its funding comes from the Exchequer. The RTB is bringing in roughly just over 60%. Why is the RTB looking for it to be reduced or is it looking for it to be reduced?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Brian Stanley: Is the €90 an annual fee?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Brian Stanley: So the €40 will be annual?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Brian Stanley: Okay. It is €40 for students for the life of the tenancy, which tends to be short term anyway. At the moment it is €40 for a tenant student accommodation unit.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Brian Stanley: With the inspection regime, the best people to do it are the local authorities. They need to be resourced. At the moment they receive some money from the Department I believe it is a contra item. I note that they get a payment from the Department for it. Virtual inspections are fantasy land. With a virtual inspection one can get answers over the phone, or a video or whatever. I am not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: The public business before us is as follows: the minutes; accounts and financial statements; correspondence; the work programme; and any other business. The first item of business is the minutes of our meeting of 17 February, which have been circulated to members. Does any member wish to raise matters in respect of the minutes? No. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, they will...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: Regarding the Health Research Board, HRB, an issue that arises regularly where health bodies are concerned has to do with accounts giving a true and fair view except for the account for the cost of retirement benefits, which are only shown as they become payable, and there is a standard for that. Are we notifying those bodies to change their approach? This is the second year the figure has...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: What Mr. McCarthy is saying is that the costs, as they accrue, should be-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: Do we agree to note the statement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: As usual, the list of the accounts and the financial statements will be published as part of our minutes. Moving to correspondence, as previously agreed, items that were not flagged for discussion for this meeting will continue to be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated, and decisions taken by the committee in relation to correspondence are recorded...