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

I am not mixing up any timescales. I have been clear about the timescales that are in place. Some 40,000 tenancies have been provided with housing assistance payment, HAP, so far. We have about 20,000 landlords working under HAP and an average of 300 HAP tenancies being secured each week, so it is working successfully. On our policy for rough sleepers, where people are found to be sleeping rough, there is an outreach team to engage with those people to try, on the night in question or over a series of nights, to bring them into emergency accommodation and then find them a sustainable exit from that emergency accommodation. We hear anecdotally that other local authorities sometimes tend to send people sleeping rough in their own areas down to Dublin. They believe there are better services there, because the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive has been doing this with our partner organisations on a much greater scale and as a much bigger problem. As a result, rough sleepers from other local authority areas do present in Dublin from time to time.

Do I visit the local authorities? Of course I do. However, I have also met local authorities twice in two housing summits. I will meet them at a third housing summit. I am meeting the housing delivery teams this evening. They are actually in Dublin themselves, and the Department is constantly engaging with them. I also visit the County and City Management Association, CCMA. There is constant interaction with the local authorities, because I have to drive them to get the work done. As I say-----