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

When we talk about it, we talk about exits from homelessness rather than exits from emergency accommodation, and they are two different things. For someone to get, say, a preventive measure like homeless HAP they must first qualify as homeless. They get it and then they are not homeless. Does the Deputy know what I mean? It is a bureaucratic loop they have to jump through but it is an important one to make sure we are spending the money in the right way.

In regard to Kildare and the email the Deputy read out, nothing I heard contradicted anything I had said. If a local authority did not agree, then they were not included and no recategorisation took place so there was no change in that number.