Ms Emer Morrissey:

At the moment, our power is kind of restrictive. We can only inspect a property when an investigation is under way, which means we have to be aware of a situation. Someone has to report it to us. We would like to be able, for example, to use CSO data to determine a geographical area in which we suspect, maybe through good citizen reports, as Ms Steen said, there are some non-registered or non-compliant landlords and then be able to investigate and decide whether it is something that falls under our remit and can be pursued further through investigations, enforcement and partnerships with other organisations such as Revenue and the pilot we are hoping to do with it. We will be able to join up and do that piece of work as a pilot study in certain areas to see how it would work. Obviously, having stronger legislative powers around that would really help.