Less than €4k of fines issued to landlords in three years for not registering a tenancy

Under the original residential tenancies act, the Residential Tenancies Board has the power to levy fines of up to €4,000 and/or six months in prison for a failure to register a letting. File Photo: Mark Stedman/RollingNews.ie

The Residential Tenancies Board has levied fines totalling €3,964 for the non-registration of tenancies in just over three years, despite having the power to apply a penalty of up to €4,000 for each such offence.

In response to queries from the Irish Examiner, the board, the official repository for all registered tenancies in Ireland, said that of 38 sanctions handed down in that time period, just four of them related to the non-registration of tenancies — itself a criminal offence.