Mr. Feargal ? Coigligh:

I would like to come in on the rental review. There is going to be a significant development. When putting the winter eviction plan in place, it was very clear to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, the Minister and the Government that a strategic look needed to be taken at the market and the exit of landlords. A lot of work was done in recent years to increase protections for tenants and so on. In the debates in the House over recent weeks, there were a lot of calls for that enduring right of tenancy, greater protections for tenants and so on. There will always be a need for a private rental sector, and the objective is to have in place a system whereby tenants in that sector are well looked after and have security and, on the obverse side, to ensure that those who provide accommodation have an incentive to do so. It makes it worthwhile. That is the overall ambition of the review.

We will be publishing an issues paper in a couple of weeks' time hopefully, and we will set out a comprehensive paper. We will have lots of questions and a public consultation, and it might be worthwhile engaging with the committee at that stage once the paper is published, to get the members' feedback.