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

There are many single people or small families who could move into those apartments. They should be taken over by the local authority or bought cheaply. Will the witnesses comment on the NAMA issue?

Will the witnesses comment on the people who cannot even get rent allowance or who, as a result of a reduction in the caps, are being driven into homelessness? What does it mean when a person is in the homelessness cycle, which seems to be dire? In my area, people forced into being homeless because of cuts to rent caps have been told to go to Drumcondra to stay in a tacky hotel. "Tacky" may be a nice word for some of the accommodation. Will the witnesses comment on homelessness and emergency accommodation?