Land Development Agency<\/a> (LDA). <\/p>\nMost are by private or institutional landlords, including Highgarden Real Estate Ltd, Xerico Ltd, Yinghying Properties Ltd and Louisiane International Properties. The legal costs awarded in most applications are \u20ac650, plus VAT and outlay.<\/p>\n
In one application, the judge is told the joint owners of a private rental property received an RTB determination against two male tenants for vacant possession and payment of rent arrears. <\/p>\n
The tenancy began in May 2024 and the tenants made one rent payment before they eventually left the property late last July when rent arrears stood at \u20ac74,400. <\/p>\n
The judge directed enforcement of the arrears payment order.<\/p>\n
In another application, Highgarden secures enforcement for vacant possession of an apartment in Belmayne, Dublin 13, plus for payment of rent arrears of \u20ac46,428. <\/p>\n
There is no appearance by the tenant who, the court is told, had not complied with a July 2025 agreement reached after the RTB determined in favour of the landlord. <\/p>\n
That agreement provides for her to vacate the property and pay some arrears, but she is still there and the arrears have increased, the court hears. No rent has been paid since January 2025, the court is told.<\/p>\n
Separately, an application by Oaklee Housing Trust was adjourned to January after the judge was told a woman tenant is in residential treatment for addiction issues.<\/p>\n
In another application by the trust, the judge is told the tenancy of a Dublin 24 property was terminated in March 2025 and the RTB made orders last December for vacant possession and payment of rent arrears at \u20ac1,700. <\/p>\n
The home \u201chas been taken over by others\u201d, there was serious antisocial behaviour, it is \u201calmost uninhabitable\u201d and the tenant is in effect out of the property, Oaklee\u2019s solicitor tells the judge. <\/p>\n
Her client wants enforcement of the vacant possession order plus, \u201cfor what it\u2019s worth\u201d, an order to pay arrears by October 9th, along with legal costs. The judge makes those orders.<\/p>\n
Respond, a not-for-profit housing body, seeks to enforce a vacant possession order against a tenant over almost \u20ac4,000 in rent arrears. <\/p>\n
The tenant, its solicitor says, was given \u201clots of chances\u201d and warnings about the consequences of not complying with an agreement to pay about \u20ac105 rent weekly, plus \u20ac74 towards arrears, and provide documents concerning her household bills and income. <\/p>\n
Respond has \u201ca long list\u201d of people seeking housing and is \u201cat its wit\u2019s end\u201d with this tenant who has \u201cfailed to help herself\u201d, the solicitor says.<\/p>\n
The tenant, who lives with her two adult daughters in the property, says she receives a \u20ac263 weekly social welfare payment and hopes to get into treatment for addiction. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not working. My money has gone down. I can\u2019t handle or manage money,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019ve nowhere to go.\u201d <\/p>\n
Granting enforcement of the vacant possession order, the judge puts a stay on the order until December to give the tenant a \u201clast chance\u201d to engage and pay regularly. <\/p>\n
\u201cOtherwise, you will be out of the property,\u201d he warns her.<\/p>\n
The LDA secures a vacant possession order, also with a stay to December, to give a respondent tenant an opportunity to pay outstanding rent arrears of about \u20ac7,500. <\/p>\n
He made an agreement last July with the agency concerning rent arrears, then about \u20ac9,500, under which he was to pay \u20ac1,000 rent, plus a minimum \u20ac500 towards arrears, every month, but had not kept up the minimum arrears payments, the judge was told.<\/p>\n
The tenant says he was out of work for a time and had undergone counselling for personal issues. He entered into the July agreement \u201cbasically out of fear of losing the apartment\u201d, but hopes to get back to work soon and to have the payments made by mid-December, he says. <\/p>\n
After the hearing, Quinn, who regularly represents landlords as well as tenants, tells The Irish Times the lack of rental properties, particularly in Dublin, means tenants often ask judges to allow them to stay on as they have been unable to get alternative accommodation. <\/p>\n
Where this arises, enforcement will still be granted because the legislation restricts the District Court from going beyond a valid decision of the RTB dispute resolution process, even where the tenant has demonstrated the ability to continue to pay rent, he says.<\/p>\n
Overholding \u2013 when a tenant stays on in rented accommodation after the tenancy termination date \u2013 can have \u201cvery significant\u201d financial implications for landlords, he says.<\/p>\n
This is particularly a problem for those who need to sell the property because they have come to the end of an interest-only mortgage payment period and are unable to afford increased mortgage payments.<\/p>\n
The enforcement order applications follow \u201ca very rigorous and extensive process\u201d with the RTB, including a dispute resolution process and the possibility for appeal to the RTB\u2019s three-person tenancy tribunal, Quinn says. <\/p>\n
The tribunal\u2019s determination of that appeal may also be appealed, but only on a point of law to the High Court. <\/p>\n
If no appeal is taken, the determination order is binding. If it is not complied with, an order must be sought from the District Court to enforce.<\/p>\n
Most enforcement applications by landlords seek payment of rent arrears or enforcing tenancy termination notices where the tenant is \u201coverholding\u201d either paying rent or in rent arrears, Quinn says. Tenants may also be ordered to vacate over antisocial behaviour or causing property damage.<\/p>\n
Landlords seeking enforcement include large institutional landlords, housing charities and approved housing bodies, professional landlords with multiple dwellings and \u201caccidental\u201d landlords. <\/p>\n
Some enforcement proceedings are by executors of an estate to secure vacant possession or payment of rent arrears, Quinn says. <\/p>\n
From a tenant\u2019s perspective, the RTB process may have determined they were evicted illegally; a termination notice was invalid; a landlord had not complied with their obligations; not returned a damage deposit or retained property belonging to a tenant after a tenancy.<\/p>\n
Many landlords and tenants resisting enforcement believe the case they made to the RTB can be reheard by the District Court.<\/p>\n
However, the law requires a District Court judge to enforce the determination order \u201csave for very limited reasons\u201d, including a lack of procedural fairness during the RTB\u2019s process, Quinn says. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m a hard-working man. I\u2019ve four kids at school,\u201d the man says. Facing an application to enforce a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5721,615,3662,61,60,11595,12305,43,13696],"class_list":["post-640371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-district-court","tag-dublin","tag-housing-crisis","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-land-development-agency","tag-landlord","tag-news","tag-residential-tenancies-board-prtb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640371","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=640371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}