Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The second question is important and I would like to deal with it in detail. Maybe in the next round I can come back on that. I will explain the expenditure piece. Before Covid, we were spending about €168 million on homeless services. The additional funding we gave to bring it to over €200 million were the Covid supports we needed to shield people and provide services. The €194 million is a significant increase on the pre-Covid years. We are not seeing a like-for-like reduction. We put in additional measures and expenditure will not be an issue. My big focus is on helping many people who are homeless back into permanent accommodation and expanding Housing First for those with complex needs, including addiction, mental health and others. A total of 1,300 new tenancies in that space will be underpinned by what we are doing. It is a significant increase on the pre-Covid year of 2019. I will come back on standards, which I would like to talk about.