Mr. Niall Byrne:

The bulk uploads are a business issue for the AHBs, particularly the larger ones. The issue is not just one for AHBs but also for large landlords of any kind, including some of the corporate landlords operating in the market. Our intention is to implement that in our registration system as soon as we can. However, “as soon as we can” has to be part of fitting in with the planned development upgrade path for the system. At this stage, I hope we will get that in as part of developments to the system next year. We thought we could get it in this year. We had a big development programme to remedy some of the immediate problems – the pathways Ms Crimin referred to earlier. That was under way from last October. It has been successful but we were not able to include the bulk upload in it.