Dr. Peter Rigney:

Yes. It may come back to that. Some employers have taken leaseholds on small blocks of accommodation so that if they have people come in, mainly from the EU 28, they can tell them they can settle there for a month and sort themselves out. In Dublin, even a month will not get a person sorted out with anything affordable.

I wish to draw the committee's attention to the role of people who come in on visas to learn the English language. This has worked well and supported the industry which has been cleaned up to a great extent. We thankfully see fewer schools closing up and taking the fees. There is a Bill in the Seanad for new legislation in this area. From what we have seen, it could represent a regressive step. As opposed to mandatory insurance before one moves, there will be a sinking fund such as in the case of the Motor Insurance Bureau of Ireland. There is a danger here that we are going back to the old issue of light-touch regulation. I am conscious of lobbying as the person who does the lobbying returns for the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU. I give some members and their colleagues advance warning that we will probably lobby about the precise format of that Bill and what it proposes. We think it is a step backwards.