Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Yes, but the woman in question was three days outside the look-back. I have written to the Minister about that as well. It is unbelievable. Four years on, this woman, who is working and contributing to Irish society, is stuck in emergency accommodation. I then said that maybe cost-rental housing would be an option but cost rental is a flipping lottery. Somebody who has been four years in emergency accommodation with her child is in a lottery, that is if she can even get information about where the affordable or cost-rental housing is.

With that in mind, I want to ask the Minister another question. Can we have a one-stop shop portal that is widely advertised in order that everybody who is in this category knows exactly where to go to find out exactly what is available? I also ask that people who have been in circumstances such as those I have described - homeless forever and ever - are not simply put in the same category as everyone else, in a lottery, particularly when they have been knocked off a housing list. This woman was on the housing list for eight years. She will not get those years back after being four years homeless because she is three days outside the flipping look-back. She is now in the same situation as everybody else. We can all imagine how this woman and her child feel. I ask the Minister to seriously consider that.

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