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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: That is a significant uplift.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: To go back to the timelines, the 9.3 weeks is obviously an average. What is the shortest and what is the longest within that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: Ms Loughlin should have known I would ask that because I have asked it before.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: I am aware of that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: If Ms Loughlin does not have it for mediation, she will not have it for adjudication but I ask her to follow up in writing to the committee to outline the outliers on the long end and on the short end.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: That may be the case in some limited circumstances-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: -----but it would not be the general norm. It would be particularly useful to know the outlier on the short end. While I accept the outlier on the long end may be the result of something like an illness, as Mr. Keegan has suggested, the RTB may have managed to do it in three, four or five weeks on the short end. I would be very interested to see what we could potentially get to over the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: That relates to the phone lines the board operates.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: That was to be my follow-on question. That service is still outsourced. Approximately how many work on the outsourced phone line?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: It was 92 when the RTB came before the committee in November 2022. I am surprised it is not more than that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: That is very good.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: Of 2022. When the RTB was before the committee just after that, the situation was significantly different. That is welcome and I commend the RTB on that because it was a significant frustration for-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: It is seven or eight. It is not 17 or 18.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: I understand that
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: A breakdown of the number of new tenancies versus renewed tenancies would be useful to have.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: There were 18,000 new tenancies----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: Plus 48,000 renewals. They are very significant figures. It is important to put the 4,800 notices of termination into context vis-à-vis the figure of 18,000. We hear figures quoted all of the time but it is only the figure for notices of termination that is referred to and the figure for new tenancies is never referred to in the media or in political discussions on this issue. In...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: Only 2% or 3% of tenancies end in dispute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: It is important to say that.