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

I confirm to the Deputy that the first piece of work is around life safety and making sure that people are safe where they are at the moment. There are a number of further pieces of work that we need to do around the regulations. There is a new volume coming out at the beginning of July and there is a second volume to be reviewed in relation to fire safety. We need to get a full output in relation to what we think probably happened at Grenfell, and that means information on the use of materials, how they have been used to date, whether the regulations were breached and around the inspections. We will move to that phase now because I received a report yesterday evening on the life safety measure and the things that have been done. I reported that to the Dáil during Private Members' business.

Deputy Cowen raised the issue of supply. We have to look at direct true supply measures. Part of that will be the strategy on vacant housing and vacant sites as well, which is on my desk. There is some work that I want to do first to ensure that we unlock all those stranded assets that are there. We have seen the figures and if even a small percentage of existing housing stock that is vacant could be unlocked, it would make a significant impact on the market for people who need to rent at a more sustainable rate.

Senator Colette Kelleher mentioned the number of people sleeping rough in Cork. We are bringing the homeless HAP payment to Cork. We are bringing that forward at the moment. A new hub is coming on stream.