Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

It has to be sustainable, and people have to be able to pay the loan back.

With regard to the flow of people through homelessness, Mr. Doyle made the point that the 13,179 in October are not the same people. Some of them would be because some of people would be two or three years in homelessness. Is a record kept of the actual number and particularly the number of children? Adverse childhood experiences are a known fact now, and homelessness is one of those adverse childhood experiences. It does not mean that someone has to be 12 months in homelessness for it to be an adverse childhood experience. There would be known risks into the future under performance in terms of education. Criminal activity later on can be a feature where there are multiple instances. Is there a known number, particularly of children, who are flowing through homelessness annually?