Ms Megan Reilly:

Deputy Barry mentioned the case I had referred to in Cork and one in Galway. I do not have the details of the cases to hand but there were two separate cases in Cork and one was found to be a licensee and the other was found to be a tenancy. The one we took forward failed on a technicality because the person in question was not a sitting tenant. The purpose of bringing forward that case was to challenge this increase and we were saying that, while it might be titled a licence agreement, it had all the characteristics of a tenancy agreement. That was essentially agreed at the hearing but the case could not succeed on a technicality.