Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 June 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

Housing and Rental Market: Discussion (Resumed)

1:30 pm

Mr. Patrick Robinson:

I understand. I forgot to answer a question that was asked earlier. I am very bad at this. Under the process we use, users of the site upload Government ID and we verify that it is a legitimate-looking ID. We are constantly increasing the level of security we provide. We are using new tools to make sure we know people are who they say they are. As a result, when someone chooses to stay with Natasha, she knows that her guest is who he or she says he or she is. The Chairman asked how we track properties that have the same basic ownership, but show up as two separate properties. If someone has a property and that person's husband or wife also has a property, we have ways of identifying that they might be linked in that way. Quite often, the payout method will be similar. It will be possible to match underlying information about the actual address. I am not going to go into huge amounts of detail because we do not talk about how we track fraud.

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