Skip to main content
Normal View

Private Residential Tenancies Board

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 18 April 2012

Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Questions (766)

Eoghan Murphy

Question:

783 Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the costs that a landlord must pay to the Private Residential Tenancies Board in a given year, per property; his views on whether in view of the state of the rental sector that charges for registering new tenants might be reduced to reflect shorter periods of tenancy. [17659/12]

View answer

Written answers

The Residential Tenancies Act 2004 sets out the fees to be charged by the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB) for the registration of a tenancy and it also provides that the PRTB may adjust the fees charged, having regard to changes in the value of money.

Private rented dwellings must, by law, be registered with the PRTB within one month after the commencement of the tenancy and the tenancy can continue in being for a period of four years from the commencement of the tenancy. The registration fee for a tenancy is currently set at €90 and an additional fee of €90 is payable for tenancies registered more than a month after the creation of the tenancy. There is a combined fee of €375 for the registration of several tenancies within the same property and within one month of the commencement of the tenancies. The maximum duration of a tenancy under the Act is four years after which a new tenancy must be registered with the Board. In the case of a dwelling subject to several different tenancies in a 12 month period no more than two tenancy registration fees are payable.

The Act allows for the PRTB, having regard to changes in the value of money, to vary these fees. I have no function in this matter.

Top
Share