Robbie Gallagher (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It would be important to estimate that because all we have to do is kick a football from where we are sitting and the streets are populated with tents. We seem to have gotten to a point in this country where we are struggling to accommodate the numbers who are coming in. We are talking here about bringing in a mechanism, streamlining and fast-tracking, call it what you may. It is important that we have some idea of what kinds of numbers we are talking about here.