Mr. Michael McCarthy:

I will hold off on discussing voids. I thank the Deputy for flagging that.

As regards our validation process visits this year, we are looking at planned maintenance as one of the features of those validation visits. When we go to a local authority, we build a profile. Members should bear in mind that during Covid it was online, though some in-person visits have started back. We go to the local authorities under particular headings or topics and find out exactly what they are doing in terms of the budget available to them and the project of work. Ultimately, one will find variations between local authorities. We glean that information and publish reports to our website. What we do in respect of a practice that one local authority is doing extremely well while another clearly is not is to showcase that project at our annual good practice seminar. It is about trying to infuse that better practice at a wider level, if that makes sense.