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Northern Ireland shows up the lazy incompetence of Dublin government again with new rent deposit scheme

February 4, 2013 by namawinelake

For a supposedly dysfunctional political system, Northern Ireland’s government is certainly delivering concrete reforms and decisions which are transparently improving the lives of its citizens. From Alex Atwood’s Department of the Environment’s furious activity with approvals of major construction schemes where economic and employment considerations are paramount to Sammy Wilson’s Department of Finance and Personnel delivering a Northern Ireland house price index based on all transactions – cash and mortgage, and myriad other reforms in between, you have to admire the initiative and delivery, even if it is in the overall context of governance by majority consent without opposition.

Today Nelson McCausland’s Department for Social Development has today announced Northern Ireland’s first residential tenancy deposit protection scheme which will be launched on 1st April, 2013. There doesn’t appear to be a press release from the DSD yet, but the BBC provides us with some details of the scheme with comments from the Minister.

There will be four administrators of the scheme whereby renters will pay their deposit to the scheme which will then arbitrate any disputes at the end of the tenancy. A similar scheme is currently in operation in the rest of the UK.

Despite noises made by the Government here, despite widespread unhappiness on the part of tenants with difficulties with getting deposits back, what progress has been made this side of the Border with designing or implementing a deposit scheme?

Zilch.

Minister for the Environment Nelson McCausland gets an annual salary of GBP 80,902 (€93,692). Our super junior Minister for Housing, Jan O’Sullivan gets €147,247.

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  1. on February 4, 2013 at 1:16 pm Eoghan

    “lazy incompetence” Precisely.


  2. on February 4, 2013 at 4:43 pm Sporthog

    Whilst there may not be a “deposit scheme” in the ROI, does the PRTB not have a tribunal service to resolve difficulties between tenants and Landlords?

    I believe due to the severe under staffing issues in the PRTB, the “dispute resolution service” is almost ineffective due to long delays before a case is actually heard.

    In some cases… a landlord could be losing over 6 months rent before the case is heard, and even then if the case is found to be in favor of the landlord, it could be unenforceable against the tenant due to lack of funds etc.



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