Pauline Tully (Sinn Fein)

The witnesses have all been very strong on the need for regulation of digs. That absolutely needs to happen. As was said, some people have brilliant experiences and others have horrendous ones.

Mr. Kindl talked about the repurposing of student accommodation in Sligo. I heard from students in County Cavan, where I am from, about the loss of student accommodation a few years ago, when there was an attempt to reinvent it. I hear that different investors who have received permission to construct student accommodation and charge extremely high rents then make the argument there is no demand and look for a change of planning or a change of use, which have been granted. Again, we need to see that stopped as well. Did Mr. Kindl say in reply to Deputy Smith that some of that accommodation is coming back into student use?