Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have two quick points. What the Minister is saying about family presentations in Dublin is not accurate. There is no such trend. The figures from January to December last year went up and down. There were 60 families presenting in one month and 40 in another. That figure dropped to 30 and then rose again. There is no trend. It is correct that the last three months of last year were better than some of the other months but the overall picture is up and down so I do not accept that there is a general trend of a reduction in the numbers of families presenting for emergency accommodation.

Can the Minister confirm that the 5,000 exits from emergency accommodation are actually exits from emergency accommodation? Are some of them preventions, through homeless HAP, before people go into emergency accommodation?