Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 646: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 602 of 22 April 2009, the position regarding same. [12474/10]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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My Department has overseen the administrative merger of the Rent Tribunal and the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB). Since 1 October 2009 administrative support services to the Rent Tribunal have been provided by the PRTB and the Rent Tribunal is now located at the offices of the PRTB at O'Connell Bridge House, D'Olier Street, Dublin 2.

Preparatory work on the legislative amendments required to underpin the formal merger of the Rent Tribunal and the Private Residential Tenancies Board has been underway in my Department for some time and while it had been intended to introduce these amendments in the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, the need to progress other priority amendments in that Act meant that this was not possible. The matter will now be progressed in the context of legislation to amend the Residential Tenancies Acts which I intend to introduce before the end of 2010.