Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 June 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Housing for All: Discussion
1:30 pm
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Yes. As the Deputy knows, we will discuss the Estimates shortly. We have provided €242 million for the provision of emergency accommodation and services. As I have said, if we require more funding, we will get more for this year. Our big focus is on additional supply, as I mentioned earlier to the colleagues seated beside Deputy Gould, and we brought in additional supply, particularly in the last quarter. I met with Cork City council, specifically the chief executive and head of housing, and all the urban local authorities to discuss the need to accelerate the exits of people from emergency accommodation and into social housing, and we are doing that.
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