Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 348: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding amending legislation to ensure that the Private Residential Tenancies Board can make detailed information on landlords available to the Revenue Commissioners, allow automatic access by the Revenue Commissioners to the PRTB's landlord database and provide for automatic reporting by the Private Residential Tenancies Board of new registrations to the Revenue Commissioners. [3099/09]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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The Residential Tenancies Act 2004 allows for information held by the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB) to be shared with the Revenue Commissioners on a case by case request basis.

The Public Accounts Committee, in its report Taxation of Rental Income Receipts published on 4 September 2008, recommended that the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 should be amended to enable the Revenue Commissioners to have full access to landlord records held by the PRTB for the purposes of enabling tax compliance checks.

My Department has accepted this recommendation and, in conjunction with the Attorney General's Office, is working on preparing the necessary amendment to the Residential Tenancies Act 2004. I hope to be in a position to table an appropriate amendment at Dáil Committee stage of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008.