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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: I know that but there are some tenancies that do stop.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: I thank Mr. Keegan. On the 4,810 notices to quit in the first quarter of this year, the point was made that not all of those might have ended up with a person leaving the property. Are we saying those 4,810 were all valid or are we saying what proportion of them were valid?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: Yes. I know that much of the data released by the RTB is very positive. I keep a close eye on it. I think the Chair said it afterwards that with regard to where the RTB was and where it is now, there has been a really good progression and we want to see that continue. Is there additional data regarding disputes? In particular, I am interested in outcomes of disputes county by county. Is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: Can a landlord be tax compliant and unregistered?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: Okay, fair enough. I look at a figure the witnesses gave earlier that there were 17,000 in non-compliance in 2023. When the RTB wrote out to them - I assume it wrote out to them on email - in 2024, that went down to 1,500.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: Was it not? I am sorry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: On the 15,500 that Ms Crimin is talking about there, she said some of those were regularised. What does she mean by that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: Of the 15,500, do we know how many of them were tenancies that were regularised or how many of them finished that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: It could be quite possible that a lot of people, because of this, received notices to quit or actually had to leave.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: What I have seen in my time is that, to get around RPZs, tenants are given notices to quit because their rent might be, let us say, less than what other people would be paying locally. Then the landlord paints the apartment and let it again. I know of cases in Cork, and one building specifically, where the landlord evicted most of the people there because their rent was so low. He did it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: That is the point I made earlier about the 109. I could think of 30 or 40 cases in my constituency alone where that has happened in recent years. That is why I urge the RTB to increase that figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: When people get the notice to quit and leave, they feel there is no point. They are out of the house and moved on. They feel they are gone and the landlord gets away scot-free. I encourage people to contact the RTB and give it the information.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: I have 14 more questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: What we see now when people get notices to quit is that they feel they will be out with nowhere to go. I have heard stories of where local authorities have advised people who have reached their date to be out to overstay. I personally know many people who have overstayed, are overstaying or will overstay if they cannot find alternative accommodation. When a person overstays, the landlord...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: Has the RTB no idea how many of those it is dealing with? The point Mr. Keegan makes is valid. If there were supply, at least the tenant could then move on to somewhere else, whether rental, cost-rental, affordable or social housing, but if there is a lack of supply, it creates these issues. I deal with people who really respect their landlords and feel their landlords have been fair to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: If there is a good landlord who has given notice to quit and has done everything right, with a tenant who has done everything right, paid his or her bills and been a good tenant, there is a dispute where they should not be a dispute because there is a lack of supply. I am noticing that people are overstaying, waiting for the landlord to take them to court, and then a month or a number of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: I thank the Chair and witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: I am not done but I think it is fair-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: Let us talk about tomorrow. Tomorrow, representatives of Aer Lingus will walk into the Labour Court. This is a company which made €225 million profits last year and is part of an international group which made €3.5 billion in profit, and its representatives will sit across the table from pilots who have not had a pay increase in five years. Of course, I do not want to see a...