Mr. Niall Byrne:

Some of that has to do with enhanced forms of data sharing between different kinds of public bodies. There is an action in Housing for All that concerns the RTB and the Revenue Commissioners developing an enhanced data sharing arrangement. The RTB currently sends information to the Revenue Commissioners about tenancy arrangements to assist them with administration of tax law but we do not receive information from the Revenue about numbers of taxpayers who are claiming various kinds of reliefs relating to rent that might indicate they are landlords. Under Housing for All, there is a commitment to developing those data sharing arrangements, which would mean that we would be proactively informed of circumstances where there might be unregistered tenancies. Local authorities sometimes come to us as well as members of the public but to be clear, we do not-----