Mr. Martin Collins:

The information the Senator seeks is on the public record. It is available through replies to various Oireachtas parliamentary questions, from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and from the Traveller organisations. In addition, ITM has done some really good analysis of those statistics. That information is readily available and broken down by local authority. Again, it points in one direction: the shocking failure of the State. Something I forgot to mention, which puts this into context, is that, in 2012, the Department with responsibility for housing did a piece of research, to which I think Ms Kelly alluded, which found that one in ten Travellers, effectively 13.5% of Travellers, was homeless. Using the census figures of 2016, that is the equivalent of 657,139 people in the majority population without a home. That puts it into context. If that does not constitute a humanitarian crisis, I do not know what does. If there were 657,139 people homeless in the settled community, that would be declared a national emergency, yet when it happens to our community, it does not get the same status or acknowledgement. It is dismissed, in fact.