Mr. Pádraig Dalton:

Members have all articulated the value of the census data which have highlighted the changing nature of our society, with a particular focus on housing. That is one of the real values of the information. We cannot comment on the debate the information has started and the reason for some of those things as that is outside of our remit. We try to provide as much insight as we can but we cannot veer into commentary on policy or anything of that nature.

I will take a few questions and deal with them briefly and then I will hand over to Ms Cullen to speak about holiday homes. Percentage increases can be very large on low volumes and the volume of vacant houses in Dublin is relatively low. If one gets any increase on a low number it seems like a very high percentage increase, but that is not to say it is not a high increase percentage-wise but members should be conscious of the volume side.

We have already produced data on Travellers and we will produce more. Ms Cullen will provide more detail on that. I invite her to go into some of the detail on the statistical side.