Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

To labour the point - I apologise; I am a politician so that is what I do for a living - if we take the 2022 data, for example, there were 3,000 first notices. Obviously, the figure for second notices was 1,600. It would be great to know whether that means that almost half of the people who got the first notice registered and, therefore, a second notice was not needed. Likewise, for example, only 175 warning letters followed on from the 1,600 second notices. Again, if that means the difference all registered, that is something I would recommend the RTB talk about because it is good. Clearly, however, if that is not the case, we have a problem. I am not particularly interested in it historically, but from this year on it would have to be possible because the RTB keeps a record of whom it writes to.

I am not at all putting words in anyone's mouth because, again, I think this is a really brilliant exercise. Is it fair to say that while the RTB is categorising arrangements as possible informal and possible formal because of characteristics that may indicate such, it is not saying that one group requires registration and another group does not require registration, because it does not have visibility on that, but that on the balance of probability, the 25,000 more probably will require registration, whereas the 47,000 are less likely to require registration, or is it not commenting on that? I am just interested to know what the witnesses think that says. Again, I am not trying to pin anyone down.