Ms Rosemary Steen:

We have regular governance meetings with the Department and different aspects of the proposed regime were discussed at these - not in detail but we were asked to comment on, for example, implications around rent pressure zones. The detail of what was proposed by Government at that stage would not have been shared. It is important to note that I would support the view that an all-island rent pressure zone in this context has made things simpler for people to understand in that we had seen challenges where rent pressure zones were not applied to certain counties. We spoke about that at the quarterly update. Mr. Gallwey might comment on that. Aspects of that related to the data we were publishing on a quarterly basis were discussed with us. Since the publication of the proposals, we have discussed some of the critical resourcing issues we may face, particularly around the need for us to deal with the notice of a termination, which are much more critical. That is part of what the chairperson referred to regarding the ongoing discussions. We were all clear as part of the quarterly updates that the rent pressure zone regime was showing some regional challenges and that would have been discussed with the Department at the quarterly governance updates.