Mr. Coil?n O'Reilly:

Accommodation is tight. It is tight all the time. The number of families who are what we would call self-accommodating, which is when they go to a hotel, is unfortunately increasing. We got it down to an all-time low of 147 in August 2021. In 2022 we were up to 214. Our ability to provide bespoke family emergency accommodation is dwindling rapidly. It is hard to predict where this will go. The essence of the issue, as the Deputy mentioned, is that 50% of people who came into homeless accommodation in August came in through notices of termination. It is difficult to know where that goes, where the endpoint is and where it stops.

From our point of view, what we can control is bringing those voids back into the housing stock, bringing those new units in and trying to make allocations from the small percentage that goes directly to the homeless and those homeless people who are on the list.