Results 1,101-1,120 of 2,163 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: 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?
- 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 have issues in determining whether everyone is supposed to be covered by previous Part 4 registrations, as per the case I outlined in my initial point. With regard to those who are not registered, and the figure for those who have difficulties is unknown, is there a data set for those who are having difficulty, either agents who are trying to register multiple properties or individual...
- 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 accept 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: We do not have a figure for tenancies that were in place versus the annual registration side. Therefore, there is a mismatch between data sets which would indicate there are X number of tenancies in limbo.
- 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 have one point that perhaps the RTB can take. I know the RTB only published quarter 2 of the rent index report on 24 November and its ambition was to try to publish quarter 3 by the end of the year. The difficulty with the delay is it feeds into the rent pressure zone, RPZ, deliberations. Could the RPZ extrapolate just the rent figures for the individual areas and make that data set...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (Number 4) Regulations 2022: Motion (23 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: I move: That Seanad Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2022, a copy of which has been laid in draft form before Seanad Éireann on 2nd November 2022.