Residential Tenancies (Deposit Retention Schemes) Bill 2011
Public bill · Private Member · Introduced
The Bill would require landlords to place tenants’ deposits in an approved protection scheme, either by transferring the money to a scheme or insuring it while retaining it. Schemes would offer dispute resolution, landlords would have to provide information, and non-compliance could lead to court orders, repayment of three times the deposit, and restrictions on ending the tenancy.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the making of arrangements for securing that one or more tenancy deposit schemes are available for the purpose of safeguarding tenancy deposits paid in connection with tenancies, to provide for payments by the Government to scheme administrators by way of financial assistance or otherwise, to provide that any tenancy deposit paid to a landlord in connection with a tenancy shall be dealt with in accordance with an authorised scheme which scheme shall provide for facilities to be available for enabling disputes relating to tenancy deposits subject to the scheme to be resolved without recourse to courts of law, to provide for the provision of information to tenants and relevant persons in relation to the authorised scheme relating to their tenancy deposit, to provide certain powers to the Circuit Court in the case of non-compliance by a landlord with the requirements imposed on that landlord by this Act, to provide for certain implications in relation to termination of a tenancy in cases where a landlord has not complied with his requirements under this Act, and to provide for related matters
Last updated 12 April 2018
- John O'Donoghue Primary
- First StageDáil Lapsed