Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I have quite a few questions and, therefore, I hope the witnesses will give brief answers. The local authority of Mr. Curran and Ms Keenan is going to deliver 2,318 new social homes by the end of 2026 but it has 2,458 households currently on the housing waiting list, another 1,768 that are in RAS or HAP tenancies and on waiting lists, and it projected as of July that a further 2,825 will join the list in the next five years. Therefore, on a simple calculation, in 2026 there will be a worse housing crisis in Dún Laoghaire and a bigger waiting list than there is now. How is that an adequate response to the housing crisis there?

How many housing applicants have been removed from the housing list because they have exceeded the housing threshold in recent years? Do the witnesses have those figures?