Professor Eoin O'Sullivan:

It is extraordinarily welcome that we will have an additional 10,000 social housing units but I sound a note of caution as we have lost 10,000 units of private rented housing in the past year and a bit, based on the registered tenancies with the Residential Tenancies Board.

As rents are escalating very rapidly, between that and the loss of nearly 10,000 tenancies I suspect that in a year's time, the homelessness figures will be even higher.