Ms Louise Bayliss:

No, not at the moment. In fact, one of the places that this is constantly raised is with the Minister for housing because that is really an area where child maintenance is used, in that it is being assessed as means. People are paying €500 or €600 towards a top-up to a landlord because their child maintenance is taken into account and, in many cases, it is not paid. We know that situation leads to homelessness because people fall into rent arrears due to of maintenance. It is a massive issue for us. In January 2024, the then Department of Justice did a report but its recommendations have not been implemented. We know that, where Revenue takes control, which it does with the local property tax, there is compliance. The report contains a recommendation that Revenue would take maintenance. I am not sure what the delay is because we are coming up on two years without the recommendation having been answered.