Ms Pauline Cadell:

I wish to pick up on that. I live in the north inner city. We have had a massive concentration of student accommodation. The last census showed us to be 40% transient and 60% stable residents. That is at a tipping point. If there is too much transient accommodation, communities lack stability. When we were inundated with student accommodation, we were very much for it. I was teaching at Trinity at the time and I could see what was happening. I knew how desperate the students were for places to live. We had an enormous amount of student accommodation built in the north inner city. It is now all aparthotels. None of our students can afford the student accommodation; it is far too expensive. Therefore, now we are getting tourist accommodation. We worked out the difference between what they would make from student accommodation and what they were charging on their website for tourist accommodation. They were making about four times the amount of money in a year from tourist accommodation – aparthotels. Most of our student accommodation is not accommodating our students; it is aparthotels. We objected not to the principle of student accommodation, but to the volume the north inner city was being asked to bear.