Mr. John-Mark McCafferty:

There are a couple of issues. There has been a ramping up of resources with regard to local authority inspections, but that is from a very low baseline. They have gone for a risk-based approach. They are going for the more obvious places, the more obvious postcodes in Dublin or neighbourhoods in the cities, where they believe they will identify less compliant dwellings, but it is a lower inspection regime than certainly we would like.

What is probably underpinning this as well as resources to pay for that service is the consideration of supply. Unfortunately, because supply is still very constrained in the private rented sector, probably a pragmatic approach is being taken at local authority level to the effect that they know many of these properties are quite low quality. However, they are at least houses or apartments that are in the market rather than not being in it. There is that type of pragmatic trade-off. With the longer term rentals, there is a legacy of mostly houses and some apartments that are of lower quality. That continues to be the trade-off, even when we talk about wider energy efficiency considerations. We are balancing off higher quality dwellings for everyone with the threat of landlords leaving the market. It is not a justification for a landlord leaving the market but it is certainly a consideration. The RTB has, as Ms O'Reilly mentioned, more resources and more legislative clout to inspect and impose sanctions. The Chairman asked a good question regarding to what extent there is a revisiting of those cases where family members moving in has been cited. I do not know if Ms Stakem or Ms O'Reilly have any insights on that.