Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have put in this additional €10 million to house an additional 200 families. I have been able to move money from elsewhere in the same budget to the hubs budget to increase it to €35 million. Sites have already been identified to do this. It an unfortunate situation to be in that, as we move into the beginning of the second half of this year, there will still be, according to the latest numbers I received on Monday - I will get an update tomorrow morning from the local authorities - homeless families in hotel accommodation that are not some of those in the exceptional circumstances that we talked about. We will have to stretch out the target, get the new hubs up online and get those families into those hubs. The hubs is just the first response. We will move them on from there as quickly as we can.