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The Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2012, which is currently at committee stage and is expected to be brought to the Seanad next month, will introduce a deposit protection scheme whereby the Private Residential Tenancies Board (“PRTB”) will administer the return of all deposits. This is to ensure that a tenant’s deposit is only retained when it is appropriate to do so. According to the most recent figures available from the PRTB, there were 953 cases referred in 201...
The Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2012, which is currently at committee stage and is expected to be brought to the Seanad next month, will introduce a deposit protection scheme whereby the Private Residential Tenancies Board (“PRTB”) will administer the return of all deposits. This is to ensure that a tenant’s deposit is only retained when it is appropriate to do so. According to the most recent figures available from the PRTB, there were 953 cases referred in 2013 on the basis of deposit retention and of these, 76% resulted in a finding that all or part of the deposit was to be returned to the tenant.
It is also expected that some form of rent certainty (as distinct from rent control) is to be introduced in order to ease difficulties being encountered by tenants due to steeply rising rents.
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