Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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-----on the Chairman's time, but I am trying to understand it. Economists and financial people talk about not overheating the market or throwing money into the market and making a bad situation worse but I am looking at a figure of €301 million going into a rental market that clearly is not sustainable. It continues to rise. Most people are evicted for non-payment of rent, as I understand the figures, and not for non-payment of a mortgage, which is also big, but has a huge focus. They are evicted for non-payment of rent and we are now putting €301 million into the private landlord market. Is that not overheating the market? Mr. Moran can disagree with me; I do not mind.