Mr. John-Mark McCafferty:

I mentioned that in the first quarter of 2022, the number of clients overholding with whom we were working was 303. The number for the first three months of this year was 475, an increase of 57%. If you break that down into household type for the first quarter of this year, 125 were single-person households, 49 were couple households, 138 were lone-parent families, 148 were two-parent families and it is unknown for 15. There was a similar proportion in the first quarter of last year. That gives a sense of the demographic. We tend to work with people who are overholding longer because of the nature of their pathway. We do not advise people to overhold because we advise them on and according to the legislation. However, it is understandable that many families and individuals have few or no options for alternative accommodation in the market or access to social rent or even cost rent, notwithstanding the fact that there is an increase in supply now and housing is coming through the pipeline. We have seen an increase in the phenomenon of overholding. We advise as best we can in that circumstance.