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

On people who exit emergency accommodation and subsequently re-present, we collect a large amount of data across the 31 local authorities. It takes considerable time and effort to drill into the data, to present them again and check them before publication I want to do more with the information available to us. As I signalled on the previous occasion I released figures on the number of people in emergency accommodation and homeless, there is more information that we are not capturing properly or publishing. I want to try to find a way to do this while maintaining the transparency we have with regard to all of the issues we face. I may return to this when I get a chance to publish the figures for February.

On the housing assistance payment, the comment I made is based on the success of the scheme to date and the number of people currently in it versus the number who have exited it, which is comparatively low. When we view the scheme from that perspective, it is successful from the point of view of tenants. When one considers that approximately 20,000 landlords are involved in the scheme, it is also successful from the point of view of landlords.

As such, I see it as a scheme that is operating successfully. I do not know if-----