Owen Keegan has resigned as chairperson of the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) with immediate effect.<\/p>\n
He was appointed to the role in October 2024 and was due to remain in position until October 2029.<\/p>\n
However, he has informed the board that he is stepping down less than two years into his five-year term for personal reasons.<\/p>\n
The RTB said Mr Keegan served as chairperson during a time of “substantial progress and development for the organisation”.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the board said his tenure included the RTB’s successful implementation of significant changes to rental law from March this year.<\/p>\n
Mr Keegan served as Interim Director of the RTB from February to August 2024 before his appointment as chairperson.<\/p>\n
The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage will begin the process of appointing a new chairperson.<\/p>\n
Mr Keegan previously served as Chief Executive of Dublin City Council from 2013 to 2023 and as County Manager with D\u00fan Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council from 2006 to 2013.<\/p>\n
The RTB thanked Mr Keegan for his contribution as he “steered the organisation through significant developments to deliver a well-regulated rental sector that meets the needs of both tenants and landlords”.<\/p>\n
RTB Director Rosemary Steen said: “We thank Owen for his significant service to the Residential Tenancies Board over the last two years.<\/p>\n
“Owen brought a wealth of experience and a long track record of public service to the RTB.<\/p>\n
“He has made an important contribution to delivering a rental sector that works for the people of Ireland.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Owen Keegan has resigned as chairperson of the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) with immediate effect. He was appointed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-494996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}