Mr. Wayne Stanley:

I will respond first because I am conscious I have to leave. Deputy Joan Collins made a point about our opening statement which deserves a response. The reasons for its inclusion are twofold. The first is that we can all do better. The statement was included because some local authorities have taken the issue very seriously and are doing the work. Discrimination is a very hard thing to get hold of, so we either legislate against it in really strong ways, and that is definitely a route that should be looked at, but the other way is to build up a consensus. The public sector duty is quite a soft power in the way that is being implemented but some local authorities are doing it well. That is an opportunity in and of itself to look at how they those local authorities are engaging with their communities.

The Deputy suggested bringing landlords together. That could be done through the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB. I am loath to make such a suggestion because we all have an additional suggestion for more work that the RTB should do. However, the RTB is the conduit through which the market works and there is some work to be done there. Traveller organisations should definitely be brought into that because usually discrimination is based on fear.