The Minister for Housing mentioned that landlords ought to be “acutely conscious” of their obligations to tenants, by registering their rental properties to the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB).
Darragh O’Brien made the feedback after two Cupboard ministers did not register their rental properties.
It emerged final week that Minister for Well being Stephen Donnelly didn't renew his registration of a Dublin rental property with the RTB in 2019.
The Fianna Fail TD for Wicklow mentioned that it was registered in 2011, and renewed in 2015, however that he missed the renewal date in 2019.
I feel persons are conscious about their obligations and what I'd say is that, clearly over the past week, I feel much more soDarragh O'Brien
His occasion colleague Robert Troy resigned as junior minister final week for failing to declare properties on the Irish parliament’s register of members’ pursuits appropriately and in addition failing to register a rental property with the RTB.
Requested whether or not he was embarrassed by the actions of his occasion colleagues, Mr O’Brien mentioned: “I take the rights of tenants very, very significantly as Minister.
“From the very first week I took over as Minister, I established a gaggle that every one the NGOs who work on this area, each within the homeless providers and on tenants rights, have full entry to me and have knowledgeable me within the modifications that I’ve made to coverage in that area in defending tenants rights in strengthening RPZs (hire strain zones), in bringing within the rental cap of two% that’s in place there now as properly.
“But additionally ensuring that we’ve new types of renting that’s backed by the state, like price rental which is inexpensive, state-backed rents with long-term, safe tenancies.
“I feel persons are conscious about their obligations and what I'd say is that, clearly over the past week, I feel much more so, however I feel that’s been addressed considerably over the past week.”
The Fianna Fail minister made the feedback on the launch of a report by the housing charity Threshold, which discovered that discovered that a third of renters are spending 50% of their revenue on hire.
Threshold CEO John-Mark McCafferty, harassed the significance of landlords recording their rental properties with the RTB.”I feel it’s actually necessary that each tenants and landlords adhere to the laws as per the Residential Tenancies Act, and it’s efficient on the RTB,” Mr McCafferty added.
It is a reminder to all landlords that registering their tenancy could be very, essential.John-Mark McCafferty, Threshold CEO
“In some methods, it in all probability underlines the significance of registering your tenancy, that this problem has come up numerous occasions in current weeks. It’s a reminder to all landlords that registering their tenancy could be very, essential.
“It makes it harder for a tenant to pursue some form of service like mediation with a landlord or certainly some form of dispute with a landlord.
“One of many issues we do is we help tenants with a case that they could have, or a dispute with the owner, a few of these go to a listening to. We're representing the tenants usually in these conditions, and I suppose the place these issues aren’t recorded, it may decelerate the method of searching for that course of and due to this fact justice.”