Ms Lyndsey Anderson:

If I could just add to that. In terms of early intervention a couple of initiatives are run very successfully in Inchicore, having been piloted in St. Michael's Estate. Bringing it all Back Home is one initiative that has been very successful. The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, has more on it. Another is the family welfare initiative. Both initiatives are early intervention and preventative programmes. Obviously eviction will be necessary in some extreme cases. If we get in at the early intervention stage and try to break that generational cycle, relationships between and within families can be improved and that can lay foundations for a better sustainable community in the long term.

On the issue of the supply of housing, anything that can be done to increase the void turnover rates in local authority and the approved bodies housing stock would be welcome. In addition to providing an increased supply of rental accommodation, it would act to stabilise the communities within which those units are based. If a community has 20% vacant or void units, that can act to destabilise the community and it is aesthetically displeasing. It can add to the whole environment of a difficult community.