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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Therefore, a possible explanation for those in the informal or unknown category is that they are informal letting arrangements, but the information that Mr. Culhane has given us suggests ruling out licensees, for the most part, because licensees are generally in rent-a-room situations. That is generally ruled out by the description that Mr. Culhane has given me. This is just my summation....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Rather than these being informal letting arrangements, it could be just as likely that there is a pattern or description that matches the lack of registration. This could simply be the characteristics of rental properties that are not registered as often. That could be the case. I am just trying to tease it out. It could be either but we do not know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: But they could be required by law to register.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is what I am trying to understand. Just because they are categorised by informant does not mean they are not required by law to register with the RTB. Mr. Culhane is saying we just do not know. It could be that they-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: A good chunk of them might be required to, a good chunk might not be; we do not know. Is that a fair statement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is helpful. When this information came out initially, some people were making assumptions that these 47,000 property owners were perhaps required to register. The case is we do not know. It could be that a good number of them are required to register and a good number are not. I thank Mr. Culhane. It is useful to have that clarification. Will the RTB witnesses provide more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Ms Loughlin for her answer. However, we have established that, out of the 47,000 we are discussing, it is not likely that many of those will be licensees, who are generally in the rent-a-room category. The properties in question are predominantly detached dwellings in rural areas. We have also established that there is a good likelihood that a significant portion of the 47,000 -...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one final question on the methodology just so that I am clear. Is it the case that the CSO looked at the RTB registration data - the total registration - and at the characteristics of properties that were registered, such as whether they were more likely to be urban than rural and more likely to be smaller or terraced than semi-detached, bearing in mind that the latter, obviously,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is clear, but for the geography one and the rent price one, are they based-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will Mr. Culhane explain in a little more detail how that worked? The two types or sets were separated out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: One of the useful things that could come out of this entire exercise, because it is important, not so much in the sense that the CSO had to do all of this hard work and then come in here to answer our questions but rather that something arises from it, is that it shows there is an argument to take a look at the question in future censuses on private rental arrangements so that, rather than...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: To the committee, rather than-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: To labour the point - I apologise; I am a politician so that is what I do for a living - if we take the 2022 data, for example, there were 3,000 first notices. Obviously, the figure for second notices was 1,600. It would be great to know whether that means that almost half of the people who got the first notice registered and, therefore, a second notice was not needed. Likewise, for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That should be registered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mr. Culhane would not be making a firm comment on the issue of whether they should or should not be, based on the data the RTB has collated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank both organisations for their presentations and the research. We understand how big the piece of research is because two datasets are being compared that are not recording necessarily the same thing, which creates all sorts of challenges. In the first round, I want to understand how the datasets have been separated. As mentioned here, characteristics have been identified in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is reasonable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is a reasonable proposition. That is all the more reason for the commitment that the RTB is not going to exclude those. The only reason I am saying that is because, prior to Ms Steen taking office, I had a conversation with somebody else in the RTB who said that 25,000 is actually only 10% of total rental properties, so that is good. There was a working assumption that the 47,000...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Even if it was a percentage of those, they should not be left to one side. Ms Steen has already made it clear that the RTB is not going to do that, however, so I am satisfied with that.