Ms Mary Hurley:

The overall objective is to ensure that there is enough housing for the people who come forward. We have a long list. However, this will not be sorted in the very short term. The Rebuilding Ireland plan is there and by its conclusion, an additional 50,000 households will be accommodated in homes compared with when it began. A key thing for us is that when, unfortunately, people present to us as homeless, they are accommodated in quality emergency accommodation. The Minister is resolute that when families present, they should go to a hub or be accommodated through the housing assistance payment, HAP. While small numbers of families continue to go to hotels at present, our overall objective is that when a family presents, our place-finding service will try to direct them to HAP or support them to find a HAP tenancy or else that they would go into a hub where they will have family supports around them to try to exit into a HAP tenancy.