Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This is my final point. I call on the Minister to review this. He should put those families that are without tenancies back into the figures, and include in the figures other people who are homeless. For example, I refer to those in non-section-10 funded hostels here in Dublin. More than 100 of them are ignored. Tusla-funded domestic violence step-down and emergency accommodation houses homeless women and children whom the Minister ignores. Rough sleepers should also be included in this count, along with those 500 adults and children stuck in direct provision who should not be there but are using it as emergency accommodation. If the Minister thinks he can get away by coming to the committee and accusing local authorities of erroneously categorising when it is he who is making the error, he is gravely mistaken.