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

I request that those figures be provided because we need to know how many people are being removed from the list as a result of the failure to raise the income thresholds.

The phrase "we are not actively in the market" was used. I have been urging the Government to go into the market and buy houses, especially in circumstances where people are facing homelessness. The Government has been stating that its policy is shifting on this issue, but the witnesses are telling us that the council is not actively in the market. We need clarity on this. Is there an active policy to purchase houses in light of these shortfalls and the number of people going into homelessness? Specifically, what is happening with the St. Helen's Court complex? There are 15 empty units there and several tenants are still threatened with eviction after several years. Are we going to buy that apartment block?