Mr. Patrick O'Sullivan:

To be fair, homeless figures are reported on a national basis. Perhaps the homeless team does not want to report for one specific local authority until the figures for all local authorities can be reported together. We will certainly engage with our homeless team in this regard. We have active engagement. We do not work in silos in the Department. We engage and have regular meetings. We will engage with the homeless team and discuss this issue. We have been doing that because we are trying to get to the bottom of this to understand it. Ultimately, in the context of homelessness and Housing for All, it is about delivering for all people, whether they are a Traveller or from the general population. The priority is housing.

Traveller-specific accommodation, as I mentioned, is multi-annual. If the projects that are in the pipeline all moved at a pace and delivery started in one year, it would present us with a challenge. We would have to manage that challenge. If all those projects came to fruition at the same time, €23 million would not be enough for the relevant year. We have to manage that. We are engaging with the local authority to understand who is likely to come forward first. We then ensure the funding is there and ready. We are always prepared, as we have been in the past, to seek a Supplementary Estimate and ask the Oireachtas for more money if we need it. The Department will certainly not be shy in doing that.