Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 157: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 348 of 3 February 2009, if he will honour the commitment given in that reply to bring an amendment to the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008 to enable the Revenue Commissioners to have full access to landlord records held by the Private Tenancies Board as recommended by the Committee of Public Accounts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25276/09]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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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. In the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 348 of 3 February 2009 I indicated that I hoped to be in a position to table an appropriate amendment at Dáil Committee stage of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008. While this was not possible in the time available, I now expect to introduce the amendment at Report Stage of the Bill.