Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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If there is a reduction year on year, that will still be a net reduction even though new properties will have been coming in, but the types of new properties coming in can often be very different. Many of the properties that are exiting are at the middle or lower end of the market, particularly properties from the Celtic tiger period such as those Mr. Dunne mentioned, while many of those coming in are at the higher or more expensive end. Therefore, the net figure does not necessarily tell us how acute the problem is at that middle or bottom end. Does that mean the data will be able to disaggregate that such that I might be able to ask, in April or May next year, what the gross loss of single properties versus the gross gain is? Will we have that level of detail?