Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

The renewed programme for Government contains a commitment to the publication of property prices, but it a complex issue. The Senator is correct regarding some of the issues to do with data protection and also the compilation of data, but we are in discussions with the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government on the matter. It is a question of finding the proper vehicle. It may well be that the Property Services Regulatory Authority would be the organisation to have these and that this section would in some way facilitate the compilation of such data.