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Violet Ann Wynne (former SF TD) in trouble with a landlord yet again. Another eviction order case. The report is here

This I think is her third time. She and her family were housed by an AHB. She was evicted from there due to rent arrears.

She was then involved in the astonishing story of carrying out works on the house she was renting and practically destroying it.

She owes €18,000 of rent arrears up to January 2026, so presumably more now, to her current landlord. This is the usual saga, case is adjourned by the judge so that herself and her ex-partner can get legal representation.

She seems to have found alternative accommodation. Some landlords obviously don't do much due diligence on prospective tenants.
 
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Another one: the warning notice was with the RTB, but not “before the Tribunal”

TR0725-008934 (Ballyconnell). The tenants stopped paying in February 2025. The agent sent the 28-day warning notice to the tenants and to the RTB on 4 February, then served a notice of termination on 6 March. The tenants didn’t turn up to the hearing.

The notice was struck out on three grounds, all raised by the Tribunal itself:
  • The warning notice wasn’t in the case files. The agent had it and read it out at the hearing, under affirmation. It was still held “not properly before the Tribunal”.
  • The EUR 1,910 arrears figure was the landlord’s, not the agent’s, so it was “unverified”. The tenant had never disputed it.
  • There was no evidence the RTB got its copy “on the same day” as the tenants.

On the third point: the RTB was sent the warning notice. Whether it arrived, and when, is in the RTB’s own files. Why didn’t the RTB check its own records before holding it against the landlord?

And “the same day” isn’t the test. The Tribunal quoted s.67(3) itself: the 28 days run from receipt by the tenant or the Board,

”whichever occurs later”​

Then it faulted the landlord for not proving same-day service, a requirement the section it had just quoted doesn’t contain.

The Tribunal then awarded the arrears from February to June on the same agent’s evidence, and rejected the EUR 1,910 owed before that (again the tenant never disputed that they owed this). Is that money now gone for good?

Absent tenants, every defect found for them by the Tribunal, and the landlord’s evidence sitting in the RTB’s own files unchecked. Is this just carelessness, or more of the same anti-landlord bias?


Case link: https://rtb.ie/disputes/dispute-outcomes-and-orders/adjudication-and-tribunal-orders/?_search=TR0725-008934
 
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