Ms Bairbre Nic Aongusa:

We can certainly look at HAP tenancies in the context of the review but the rent pressure zones apply to HAP tenancies at the moment. Deputy O'Dowd asked about the question of supply because fundamentally, of course, behind the whole issue of rent pressure zones and rapidly rising rent is an acute shortage of supply. We have an entire section in the rental strategy on measures to increase supply. With the Chairman's indulgence, I will introduce my colleague, Mr. Niall Cussen, who is the principal planning officer from the Department who can speak a bit about what we are doing to improve supply. Ultimately, the reason we have such a time bound measure for rent pressure zones - three years maximum - is because its purpose is to enable all this new supply to come on stream.