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

Eoin Ó Broin: Would that categorisation facilitate a person who does not have exclusive occupation of a portion of the property and is just renting a room? Would such a person fit that category of a household for the purposes of filling a second form?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there any way for the CSO, perhaps as part of this exercise, to attempt to match or look at where two separate census forms were filled in for a single property to try to establish things? I appreciate that all of this is tricky. I do not mean it as a criticism in any way when I say that 47,000 "possible informal" arrangements seems potentially too large. It is worthy of interrogating...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I presume it would be very time-consuming to do that.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure. I am out of time. I will come back in on the next round.

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

Steven Matthews: I am taking the next slot. That is an interesting line of questioning that I wish to pursue. We all know from canvassing houses and knocking on doors that we often do not get an answer. I presume the CSO field workers also have the same experience. The scenario Deputy Ó Broin painted is that somebody renting a room within a property is a slightly different scenario from a lot of...

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

Steven Matthews: It is a really difficult task to try to identify all of this because the CSO is dependent on somebody voluntarily filling out the CSO form. Many people comply with that and are quite happy to do so. That is one aspect to collecting the data. The other aspect then is to register with the RTB, which is obviously a legal requirement for the landlord. We know some landlords do not do that,...

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

Steven Matthews: What is generally the response rate for filling in the CSO form? What would be the return?

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

Steven Matthews: That is pretty good all right. This is a question for the RTB. If it receives a complaint from a tenant and, in investigating that complaint, realises it is not registered tenancy, what steps or measures are taken? Does it follow that process of two contacts to the landlord that Ms Steen outlined in the opening statement?

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

Steven Matthews: I am thinking of a particular scenario. Tenants have come to me in the past about issues with the property they are renting and they would not know the address of the landlord and might only have a phone number for the landlord. It sounds like a very informal type of arrangement. What is available to the RTB to track the owner of the property on the assumption that the owner is likely to...

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

Steven Matthews: Therefore, in every situation where the RTB becomes aware that this is most likely a rental situation that needs to be registered and does not appear to be registered, they all follow the same investigation.

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 for their work in this area. I am trying to understand the 47,754 in the unknown category, as the witnesses put it. The opening statement suggests that those living in possible informal rented dwellings or this unknown category were paying 30% less rent than households in formal rented dwellings. Is that just 30% less in overall terms, or is it comparing like with...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I am asking because the statement also points out that what the CSO considers to be unknown or informal dwellings are also in rural areas. If it was comparing like with like and was 30% less, that would suggest a number of these may well be informal rental arrangements or discounted rents between family members. However, if it is overall, that does not suggest any family discounts in that...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Is it the suggestion, then, that most of those in detached houses that are informal and predominately in rural areas are probably renting from family members? That would not fit with regard to licensees.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: It says they are detached houses in rural areas. I am trying to understand why we think they are informal settings. There is nothing in what Mr. Culhane is saying to suggest they are licensees and nothing from the rental database to suggest they are at a particular discount that might indicate family arrangements. Of course, not all family arrangements are going to get a discount but some...

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...