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

Cork. I mentioned Housing First, and I spoke the McVerry Trust about Housing First. I know more progress has been made in Canada. A couple of new ideas could be added to Housing First. That is good and I will look at the suggestions and report back on them when I can.

In respect of Ballyfermot, I apologise that the local representatives were not invited to the Ballyfermot meeting.

I did not know that at the time and if I had, everyone would have been invited. I am glad to say that Deputy Ó Broin and Councillor Doolan were there this morning at the Focus Ireland event. I apologise to Deputies because they wanted to be there and should have been there. It is a great project and it is more than just 70 new homes. We need to find solutions for people who want to downsize. The lady to whom I was fortunate enough to give the keys to her new home was downsizing from a house and 16 new tenants in those homes had come from larger family homes in the area. We did not just unlock 70 new homes; we actually unlocked 86. The Iveagh Trust, together with the council, the authority and the Department, were able to do that. I have been given the documentation on Singapore. I will look at it to see what they are doing with their housing development agency. I am open to ideas and Deputy Ó Broin has his own document which I will also look at. It is very helpful at this point in time in terms of the review we are doing.

On not winning the war and meeting our key targets, what I would say is that in the course of the previous year, 1,200 homeless families were either removed from hotels or prevented from going into hotels because we found other solutions for them. That is very important to say when we look at the figures. It is a big challenge. A lot of resources have been put in to tackle this challenge and additional resources were made available today by me. The social housing output is ahead of target which is a good thing. We have to keep driving it. We cannot let up at all in terms of making sure we are doing as much as we can for those targets.

On the points Deputy Coppinger raised, we spoke already about the new hubs and funding for homeless families that was made available today. I am glad the Deputy welcomes the hubs although I would not compare them to Magdalen laundries. If she goes to Mater Dei-----