Mr. Conor Skehan:

That statement is a misconstrual of what I have just said. There are major housing crises in every major European country at this point in time. If I could show the Deputy the cover of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitunghe would see that homelessness is a huge crisis in German cities. We can all speak English and read the English newspapers at the moment. Theresa May said two weeks ago that she was giving priority to dealing with homelessness above dealing with Brexit. That is how big it is in Britain. It is a huge issue all over Europe, for more or less the same suite of reasons. We are not unique. We should be a little bit careful about mixing the two things. I agree with Deputy Cowen that there is a need for a standardised way of examining homelessness but I do not agree that our levels of homelessness are out of step. If one thinks the situation is difficult in Europe one would want to go to a few major cities in the United States.