Mary Fitzpatrick (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is playing with numbers. It is a presentational matter but it is an important statement of fact that it is not only 5% of €300 million, which is a very large number dedicated to homeless services. It would be incorrect for this committee to allow an impression to be created that 5% of that €300 million of a homeless services budget is all that is being spent on homeless prevention because that is untrue. There is a very significant proportion of the housing capital budget allocated to preventing homelessness through the significant increase in the provision of social housing through direct build, acquisition and tenant in situ. That is the point.