Mr. David Kelly:

It was clear in the Minister's statement earlier this year that during the compilation of the March and April homeless reports, a number of houses and apartments were categorised as emergency accommodation that were not emergency accommodation. They were local authority stock, namely, properties that had been leased by local authorities and, in some cases, HAP properties. The Minister asked that Department to engage with local authorities to examine the full extent of this issue. That was the background of the publication of the report in September.