Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Okay. I will leave it at that. I just wanted to see if the board had the people to do the job.

There are a couple of areas I want to focus on. The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage was before the committee last week. The officials told us they had done a survey or report in 2017 or 2018, I cannot recall the year, and 28% of people in receipt of housing assistance payments were topping up then. Rents will have increased in the meantime. Anecdotally, I hear that is a common phenomenon. It is not unusual. When RTB gives its analysis on rent, does it take that into consideration? How would that be captured? Has it done surveys? Would people even tell?