The Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015 includes an enabling provision for the establishment of a deposit protection scheme, to protect tenants' deposits being retained. I understand from a response to a parliamentary question that that provision is to be reviewed even though it has not yet been implemented. Will the Government establish a much-needed deposit protection scheme for tenants?

I answered this question last week for the Deputy's colleague, Deputy Howlin. We are working on the establishment of the scheme in conjunction with the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, as part of the new change management programme. The legislation in place may not be sufficient to do what we want to do with the RTB. We may need to bring in new legislation to supplement the primary legislation. We are moving to do what the Deputy suggests but doing so is not as simple as we thought it would be in terms of the existing legislation.