Mr. John O'Connor:

On the idea of a national differential rent scheme, there is provision in the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 for a national framework for rents. The Department has been working on that. It is critical that a national framework be brought in to have consistency throughout the country. Bringing it in is an issue politically, because there will be winners and losers from the perspective of both tenants and local authorities in terms of income. We do need to bring it in, however. It needs to be transitioned in over a period of-----