Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

I note that Ms Eileen Gleeson said that the people who have been taken off this list in that category are people who are essentially homeless and that Ms Mary Hurley from the Department said that people in that category are essentially not homeless. It is an indication of the degree of confusion created by this move that the Dublin Region Homeless Executive and the Department now disagree over the definition of homelessness.

My next question is for Professor O'Sullivan. I was interested in the point he made about the likelihood of the homeless figures increasing or decreasing over the next year in respect of whether the housing and homelessness crisis had peaked. Will he drill down more into his assertion that it has not yet peaked and that the numbers will increase for at least another year? Will he give more detail regarding his basis for saying this?