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Private Residential Tenancies Board delays

Summary

Senator Kelly asks the Leader to address landlords’ complaints that the PRTB provides inadequate protection and takes excessive time to resolve tenancy disputes.

I raise an issue related to the Private Residential Tenancies Board, PRTB. Landlords sign up every new tenancy with the PRTB but do not receive any protection. When a landlord has an issue with a new tenant he or she is given the run-around from the PRTB for 18 months and is eventually forced to employ a solicitor to have the tenant removed from his or her property. We hear horror stories daily about landlords having to pay tenants to leave their properties. I call on the Leader to bring this matter to the attention of the Minister of State with responsibility for housing because the legislation needs to be changed urgently.

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