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- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Cardiology Services (11 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: That is the key issue. It seems from the Minister of State's discussions with Mr. O'Sullivan that we can get to that level of service while the recruitment is ongoing. Obviously, these are highly skilled individuals who are not waiting around for a phone call to take up a post at UHW. It is good that we will be able to move to that level of service while the recruitment proceeds at the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: I will keep him here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: It is disappointing that we do not have the 2023 report before us. It is clearly ready. When did the RTB conclude the report?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: No problem. The witnesses will be aware that in this committee, I have been focused on timelines relating to dispute resolution for the past number of years. Mr. Keegan's predecessor would have said that the ideal timelines for dispute resolution through the mediation process were four to six weeks and 12 weeks for adjudications. Would Mr. Keegan agree that these are the ideal timelines...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: So the RTB is at 9.2 or 9.3 weeks for-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: The obvious follow-on question is this: when does the RTB expect to meet its target timelines of eight weeks and 16 weeks that have been agreed with the Department?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: Is it not eight weeks and 16 weeks then?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: Sure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: Absolutely, and I understand that point. I go back to the question, which was when does the RTB expect to meet the eight-week and 16-week target timelines?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: The RTB will be meeting the eight-week and 16-week deadlines by the first quarter of next year. . Ms Louise Loughlin: That is the intention, yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: Yes. This is obviously a major focus here because, as Mr. Keegan said, these numbers are unacceptable. If we look at the most recent report, from 2022, 33% of the RTB's cases were as a result of rent arrears or overholding, 19% concerned validity of termination notices and 17% were for breach of landlord obligations. On the other side of all this are landlords and tenants, who, in many...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: To pick up where Mr. Keegan left off, the exercise the RTB carried out on the data between quarter 4 of 2022 and-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: -----May of this year was very useful. What number does the 5.5% he mentioned represent? What is the total number of notices from quarter 4 that were analysed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: I agree.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: I agree but it is important the number is out there. We are not talking about thousands. It is a smaller number although any number is unacceptable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: They may have been in situ in another property.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: How many disputes did the RTB encounter in 2023? I appreciate the number is in the report but the witnesses should have it there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: Okay. I have written down that it was 7,417-----