Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry but the number of 5,100 takes account of exits and preventions. I am not disputing the fact that there are more adults, children and families in emergency accommodation because we still have a crisis with homelessness. It is why we continue to develop new policy responses and allocate new money. The inter-agency group work is so important to ensure that our response is the right one. Where somebody has a medical health need, we put in place a medical health response; where somebody has a rights need, we must ensure to have the right response in terms of meeting that; and where somebody has an issue that could be simply and cheaply addressed if we catch it earlier, we must do it that way rather than allowing those people to find themselves turning up at the Dublin Region Homeless Executive. We continue to have to do new things in that regard.

The Deputy mentioned rapid-build, modular and prefabricated buildings but it is no longer a specific response for homelessness. It is happening in private and social housing across the country. If the Deputy has additional solutions or more suggestions, we will hear them.