Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I have a question for Simon. Recommendation No. 12 touches on a point that was raised earlier by Focus Ireland. It states that emergency accommodation for homeless people is best delivered by experienced homeless services rather than for-profit private operators. Simon suggests that it is not convinced that competitive tendering, which is open to such private operators, is the best approach to commissioning those services. Does Simon consider it is a problem in terms of providing services for people who are homeless that it can be open to competitive tendering, where quality is perhaps not considered as much and it is more about the lowest bidder?