Ms Caren Gallagher:

In the context of that budget a proportion of that is for the quarterly rent index. We are thinking ahead to next year and the analysis we will do on the annual registration data that we will have. Amárach Research has produced this research. We commissioned the rental sector survey for 2019-2020 which was published in 2021. The outputs of this last round will be in 2023. That has been the focus of the last while. Those outputs are in lieu of the annual registration data and the insights that we will get for that are really timely and useful.

We are a small research team. It comprises myself and two others. Our core pillars are the rent index and what is going to happen in the future in regard to annual registration and the production of this piece of research. Another piece to add to that is the datahub we have been developing. My colleague Brian, who could not be here today, was very keen to explain that but he is unfortunately ill. It is trying to be more open and transparent and do small amounts of analysis ourselves where we have the capacity to do so, in order to make that data available to anyone outside of ourselves in order to use it or complete research. It is constrained and focused in terms of capacity and resources we have. We have those core pillars for the outputs.