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- 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 staff number is 109.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: What percentage or number of those 100 staff are involved in the disputes 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: Those are indirect, outside, posts then, I assume. Is the RTB's phone line operated internally or externally?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: What level of staffing is there?
- 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 I am a landlord, therefore-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: -----and I am trying to register a tenancy now, trying to contact the RTB and having great difficulty in doing so in recent weeks, who am I trying to contact? Is it the outsourced provider?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: What level of staff is there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: These are the same eight to ten people.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: This particular landlord that I referred to has been trying to contact the RTB for the last four weeks and has not been able 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: The question is whether there are enough staff on the phones. Is the RTB deploying additional resources into this area in light of the difficulties being experienced?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: How many extra staff are 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: And the shortest?
- 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.