Mr. Earnán Ó Cléirigh:

There is significant input coming from my section and from the Department. It is secondary, but there is also a working group on receivership and the protection of tenants' rights through receivership processes involving their tenancies. There is work ongoing with the Department of Health on the fair deal scheme and the possible mobilisation of vacant properties. Those are only some of the issues on the supply side. We have planned and sequenced our activities and we are where we are.

In terms of the timeframe, we would expect to have a new circular issued within quarter 3, and also the report of the working group. It is not the case that we are only looking at the existing regulations and a memorandum of understanding approach. In the working group we are looking at more guidance aimed at better enforcement and compliance with the existing system, but also potential changes to the regulation and possible legislation. That goes to the point that was raised by Deputy Cowen in earlier questions about information. The information is not really available. There are multiple platforms with multiple players involved. We could carry out surveys, but other jurisdictions use a registration process as the best way to gather information. That is something we will consider, but we cannot just decide to do it. For registration to be implemented, legislation will be required. Equally, we can ask Airbnb to provide us with information, but we cannot require it to provide us with information if there is no legislative basis for it. The question of data is something we are working on in the working group. It will be dealt with in the report and we will see what changes to legislation are necessary or look at possible new legislation.

In terms of enforcement capacity, in Barcelona - the example Deputy Ó Broin gave - the local authority doubled its on-the-street inspection team from 20 to 40 to look at and try to find properties.

If we are to do it-----