Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats)
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I strongly agree in terms of cost rental being available to people in receipt of HAP. On a question for Threshold, its opening statement referred to rent increases outside of rent pressure zones being as high as 60% or even double, and this is something I have come across. Needless to say, no one can sustain those sorts of rent increases. Does Threshold think there is an issue with the criteria around rent pressure zones and how an area becomes eligible or not in terms of the data? Does that need to be looked at? For the 25% of the country that is not covered by rent pressure zones, in some of those areas there are very high rent increases and they do not qualify. What is Threshold's view on that?