Results 11,061-11,080 of 20,094 for speaker:Brian Stanley
- 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 Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has figures for the number of people in receipt of housing assistance payment and the number in receipt of rental assistance, while the Department of Social Protection has figures for the number of people getting rent supplement. It is those three cohorts that I am trying to get to the bottom of. We can get the figures from the...
- 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 ask Ms Gallagher to repeat the percentage.
- 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: Ms Gallagher mentioned 96%.
- 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 would like to address the issue of enforcement on which very good information is detailed in the briefing. The Residential Tenancies Board pursued a number of cases. The advance briefing note outlined the number of cases taken in 2018, 2019 and 2020 following on from the issuance of registration enforcement notices. In 2020, 1,778 enforcement notices were issued. When one moves to the...
- 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 good if cases can be resolved without going to court.
- 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 any sphere of life, it is always better to do that. In regard to registration enforcement in respect of which the board has to resort to the courts, the brief states that a District Court summons is issued for failure to comply with a second notice and that landlords are given ample opportunity to mend their hand before a summons to court is issued. That is fair enough. When the matter...
- 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.