Thousands of Dublin rental units fail to meet minimum legal standards

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Have to laugh at this article:

Thousands of Dublin rental units fail to meet minimum legal standards | BreakingNews.ie

South Dublin County Council has a statutory obligation to enforce minimum standards in private rented accommodation.
www.breakingnews.ie

"In data released to PBP councillor Darragh Adelaide, the council said it inspected a total of 4,772 properties in 2024 and 3,594 were found to be non-compliant."
"Mr Adelaide expressed deep concern over the figures and said: “These figures highlight a shocking disregard for tenants’ rights and safety."
“Landlords are neglecting even the most basic legal standards, leaving renters to suffer the consequences.”

Seriously, no indication of the severity of the non-compliance, could be just one small thing, that is NOT making the tenant live in squalor!! Id say the vast majority are little things that the tenant wasnt even aware of
Complete scaremongering,

"He said the eight improvement notices issued in South Dublin last year compared to 946 such notices issued by Dublin City Council in 2023."
Isnt the above good, means things are getting alot better?
 
Real examples

Tenants unable to produce fire blanket (it was in the cupboard).

No physical heater in ensuite - had underfloor heating.

No vents in walls in 150 year old stone cottage.

All of these were the subjects of 'improvement notices'.

I now make sure I am present during an inspection.
 
Its ridiculous stuff.. and its really giving landlords a bad name..

Sure their is a thread on some other forum bashing landlords quoting this article..
 
These stories really annoy me as they mix up all sorts of serious and inconsequential breaches.

There are actually properties where landlords are endangering their tenants’ health and comfort and others where the breach is trivial or all the tenant’s own doing.
 
Looking beyond the headlines and you get this (from the same article)

"In data released to PBP councillor Darragh Adelaide, the council said it inspected a total of 4,772 properties in 2024 and 3,594 were found to be non-compliant.

This resulted in 4,431 improvement letters, eight improvement notices, and one prohibition notice."

I don't know the difference between an improvement letter and an improvement notice, but it seems only one, single solitary premises was deemed dangerous, unsuitable, or uninhabitable and was prohibited from use as a dwelling; 1 out of 4,772 - that's 0.02% that failed or 99.98% that could continue in use as rental accommodation. If I were a landlord in that area I'd be posting that last statistic in ten-foot high letters.

"In 2023, more than 40 per cent of the 2,732 inspected dwellings were found to be non-compliant.

There were no improvement nor prohibition notices issued that year."

So what exactly does non-compliant mean? Is this just another bureaucratic box-ticking exercise that proves (again) how wonderful the council, the councillors, the council staff, and their sub-contractors are? I should qualify that by saying proves only to themselves, and nobody else.

A massive waste of tax-payers' money, IMHO (joking about the H as usual).
 
Sarah Ryan said:
The dryer one is the one that makes me laugh, never had one in my life and I have lived in apartments and houses!
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I think it's required if there is no outside space. If I was a landlord I would have one so that the tenants would not dry clothes inside as much which can cause mould issues. But alas as a tenant whenever we had one it was terrible quality and we barely used it!
 
Even when you provide a washer dryer or dryer, most tenants won't use them due to the high running cost. Phone the landlord, complain of mould, request landlord to address the issue caused by own self.
 
Meanwhile in Mallow County Cork.
The brother had to undertake major work on his rental after receiving a beaut of a letter from the council.( They got one back)
1. Change a light bulb in the common area that services 3 separate apartments.
2. Clean a cooker hood in the kitchen while the two tenants smoked and drank tea while watching.
3. Pull out the bed in bedroom two and take a picture of the missing radiator. ( Council blasted him because there was no rad. in the bedroom.

He is traumatized after having to reach up and change a light bulb.
Put on rubber gloves and clean a cooker hood.
And finally to pull out a bed from the wall and take a photo of a radiator.


He served notice last year and tenants hopefully will be gone April. Then straight on the market.
 
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