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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, June 13, 2022

QUESTION NO. 1

QUESTION: Councillor Carly Bailey

To ask how many privately rented properties are registered in the SDCC area and of those, how many of those properties have been inspected during the last 5 years by SDCC (broken down into HAP, RAS, Long term leasing, PRM).

REPLY:

The most recent Residential Tenancy Board Tenancy Register audited figured for South Dublin County has 17,079 registered private rented tenancies in the South Dublin administrative areas.

Numbers of initial and follow-up private rented property inspections for the period 2018 to 2022 are as follows:

Inspection Type

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022*

Total

RAS-Scheduled

251

169

96

89

3

608

HAP-Scheduled

992

1,147

353

103

524

3,119

Complaints-All*

81

91

82

22

22

298

Other

   420

1,823

2,595

1,224

428

6,070

Total

1,930

3,230

3,126

1,438

977

10,701

*2022 figures are for Q1 only.

**"Complaints-All" relates to reactive inspections scheduled as a result of complaints being made to the Council in relationn to all tenure types including RAS, HAP and Other Private Rented Properties (note that Council long-term leased properties are not categorised or registered as private rented properties.