Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent)
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363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there will be a rebate for landlords who registered their property with the Residential Tenancies Board in 2021 and paid €90 and who now have to re-register the property in 2022 and pay another €40; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54369/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) was established as an independent statutory body under the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004-2022 (RTA) to operate a national tenancy registration system and to resolve disputes between landlords and tenants. Accordingly, the implementation of the new tenancy management system is an operational matter for the RTB.

From 4 April 2022, landlords are required under the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2019 to register their tenancies with the RTB every year, within one month of the anniversary of when the tenancy began. This applies to both new and existing tenancies. As before, landlords continue to be required to register a tenancy within one month of its commencement. The annual fee is €40 to register a private residential tenancy with the RTB. No fee applies to the 2nd or any subsequent registration in a 12-month period in respect of the same dwelling, providing the applications are made to the RTB within one month of the tenancy commencement date of the new tenancy.

There is no rebate of previous registration fees paid before annual registration began. However, a temporary waiver applies from the annual fee when registering existing further Part 4 tenancies in certain circumstances. A further Part 4 tenancy would have come into being when a tenancy has lasted 6 years.

Where a landlord has applied to register a ‘further Part 4 tenancy’ before 4 April 2022 and that tenancy still exists on 4 April 2022, no annual registration fee shall apply in respect of annual applications to register that ‘further Part 4 tenancy’, as required, for so long as it exists (i.e. until it is terminated by the tenant or landlord or until the expiry of its 6 year term).