Mr. Declan Dunne:

As stated earlier, we are all committed to independent living and we want to move away from emergency provision. However, I would like to make a couple of short statements. According to the most recent rough-sleepers count for Dublin, there are 102 people rough-sleeping. In addition, there are close to 70 people in Merchant's Quay café over night and 101 people in the Brú Aimsir facility. The effect of the closure of this 101-bed facility will be to double the number of rough-sleepers over night. I do not believe any of us wish to see that happen. We have a good service provider and a funder. All that is required is agreement to the continued operation of this facility until such time as another facility can be found.