If non-registration is indeed a key part of explaining the discrepancy between the CSO and RTB figures, it may suggest that in recent years we have witnessed not so much landlords fleeing the sector, as landlords fleeing regulation.
The Environmental Pillar also called for more staffing for the National Parks and Wildlife Service in the face of the national and global biodiversity crisis.
The current Government vowed to improve this crisis when they took up office but, by any fair measurement, they have not succeeded at the task, writes Laura Harmon