The eviction ban

To be fair landlords shouldn't be issuing non compliant notices. A lot has been said about non compliant tenants. And I agree with most of it, but the landlords should be held to the highest standards too.

Charities are part of the general media vilification of LLs. It's a bit like the eviction poster in the media this week.

Normal process shouldn't be interrupted by it. That the normal process is dysfunctional is solely down to Govt inaction.

Yes, sorry I wasn't having a go, of course you are correct.

Yes but it still does nothing to help the situation and actually strengthens the case for a private supplier to exit. The notices shouldn't so complicated in the 1st place and shouldn't need a legal professional to complete.

The aim should be all about encouraging supply, not making it more difficult for suppliers.

Other parties have certainly contributed to the current issues, see my earlier post summarising the facts. No party is blameless in this fiasco. To deny that is delusional I'm afraid.

I think you are missing one piece of the puzzle:

Various regulations introduced weren't just populist, the government has been playing another game and that's to offload social housing on the private sector. Regulations are designed to entrap and offload the government's responsibility on private landlords.

You can't refuse a tenant based on HAP, one month deposit caps probably stop a landlord using wealth as a filter on tenants, slow evictions to keep problem HAP tenants housed off the governments books.

If you want to know why the government is so concerned about regulating private rentals it's because they are using them for social housing, they are not keen to give them back.

Exactly this.

Actually FF initiated it if we're are being picky. But privatisation was a on trend policy globally at the time. Certainly FFG have made it worse. But the other parties aren't blameless either. Not getting voted in means you've not convinced enough people either.

Talk of compliant notices is just an example of the dishonesty now that is employed in these systems.

A notice of termination is really quite simple, there is a certain number of days notice, what is needed is:

1. Issuing notice of the correct duration to the tenant so they are given the correct time to make plans.
2. A signed declaration that this is for ONE of the valid reasons allowable under the lease (no requirement to be specific on which).

From the tenants perspective that is all the information that they need.

The RTB can then check up on 2. if and when they like and also check that the landlord does not re-rent without offering to the tenant.

There is no way in advance that any of the reasons to issue notice can be verified, so requiring any other information on there is pure BS.

That's all that is needed, legally or otherwise.

Requiring that it be sent to the RTB on the same day to be valid (why?) or that the landlord should email the RTB footage of them performing the Haka in Stephen's Green or whatever else they might ask for is pure bullsh!t the sole purpose of which is to entrap them procedurally, by increasing the chance that the notice can be challenged.

It's entrapment any which way you look at it.

Congrats on reducing your stress and increasing your quality of life!