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

I will be very quick. I have a reply here from Galway City Council. In reply to the questions I posed, the council said in October that the clients are still categorised as homeless but not being housed in emergency accommodation. I am confused because people are either homeless or not homeless. My question is whether the people we are discussing are homeless. I have a reply here from Louth County Council from October which says that the 211 figure in the north-east region, comprising counties Louth, Cavan and Monaghan, relates to people that are now categorised on PASS as being accommodated in own front door units. They are being recorded in PASS but are just being given a new categorisation. Are the people we are talking about homeless or not? That is the fundamental question that this report is meant to address and that we are trying to understand.