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I understand the wish to deter unregistered letting agents from continuing to operate after the date of their deregistration. However, I have some concerns about amendment 73.
We have been working to improve the quality of the data, particularly with regard to some of the community information. To date, we have used the IRF for information sharing across the two organisations.
My numbers are perhaps a little out of date, but a couple of years back German corporation tax rates were in the 30 per cents, depending on where a company was and what it was doing, compared with Ireland’s 12.5 per cent rate.
That principle has not been implemented to date—as is exemplified in the case of the Catholic adoption agencies—and there is concern that churches that do not marry same-sex couples may be targeted by overzealous officials and public bodies.
Clearly those campaigns have not been successful to date, but we will continue to take part in them.We understand the democratic imperative that councils make rent arrears policy; indeed, we think that they are best placed to undertake that work.
We want to take account of the experience to date, not just to ensure that we amend guidance where we think that that is necessary, but as we look to put it on a statutory footing.The guidance was reviewed in light of the experience to date of running the welfare fund.
I made a point, late in the afternoon on the first day, of having a telephone conference with the devolved ministers, in which Richard Lochhead was involved, to bring them up to date on what had happened that day so that I could get their comments.