Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If people are exiting emergency accommodation the vast majority are exiting into permanent, secure tenancies and into HAP, AHB and LA tenancies.

Another thing we are doing, and there has been some criticism by the way and I want to mention it, is around the long-term leasing targets. I am certainly phasing out long-term leasing because we are delivering more homes but the long-term leasing initiative I brought forward is for 1,200 homes specifically focused on allocations to those in homeless emergency accommodation and I make no apologies for it. Others here have been critical of that initiative. I know from people who are in long-term leasing arrangements that they are much happier to be in them than in emergency accommodation. When I use another tool like that, I stand over it completely. We are targeting that around the long-term leasing targets for 2024 as well and focusing very much on those in emergency accommodation and prioritising them. A lot of those people are singles and we were able to get apartment-type developments.