Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Great. Well done. I thank Mr. John McCarthy. Staying on those accounts, I will move back to look at the urban development fund. In fact, I will leave that for a moment and come back to it if I have the time. I might come back in the second round. I want to go to the housing assistance payment, or HAP, and all of the money, including HAP, that is going to sustain an unsustainable private market. I ask Mr. John McCarthy to clarify something here. I thank him for all the documents, which are extremely helpful. I want to note that. It is a good way to proceed. I am looking at the 26 February 2019 document from the Department. The second page sets out that the detailed results of the 2018 SSHA were published and showed that 71,858 households were assessed as in need of social housing. I presume that number is rising. Is that the case?