Mary Fitzpatrick (Fianna Fail)
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Okay. It really is important that we get to the bottom of this. We can accept the analogy of the vacant properties and so forth, but it is very frustrating for people. There is obviously always going to be an amount of churn. That is a feature of the whole housing sector. However, we need at least one verifiable baseline, let us say, from which to do analysis and potentially develop policy responses.

Dr. Byrne mentioned the very large figure from the sample he did with Threshold. When he said it is a large figure, I presume he is suggesting that the 52% is a large figure but the actual number of 146 tenancies is a tiny percentage of whichever of the two numbers we are talking about. I would read from this that anybody or any renter who is contacting Threshold is generally doing so because they are in fear or at risk of losing their tenancy and their landlord is probably not behaving terribly ethically or properly. As well as being a really small numeric sample, that would also be a sample of people who are possibly coming up against less than best practice. Would Dr. Byrne agree with that?