Professor John FitzGerald:

We reflected. I would not have been the person making the decision on it - it would have been the director who decided - but we definitely did reflect on whether it was wise to associate the ESRI's name. There was a risk but we felt it gave us access to data and provided data to the wider public that was of value and that it overcame the risks. I am not sure whether one would do that again, but it certainly I think it did produce a lot of good results and produced information which would not otherwise have been available in terms of monitoring the housing market.