Mr. Brendan Kenny:

We are delighted to be here. We welcome the invitation and look forward to the session this morning. We circulated my report on Wednesday so I expect everybody to have it by this stage and will not go through it in detail. It is broken down into four parts. The first part refers to family homelessness in which there has been a significant improvement over the past two years or so. Good progress continues to be made on that aspect of homelessness. The second part refers to single adults, which is far more complicated and on which we have not made as much progress. There are just over 3,000 single people now in the hostel system in Dublin city, which is 1,000 more than were in the system two years ago. The third part refers to deaths and persons finishing in homeless services, and a small number of deaths on the streets. The fourth part refers to our response to the "RTÉ Investigates" programme on homelessness that was aired about two weeks ago. We are happy to take questions from members of the committee.