Ms Mary Hayes:

I thank Deputy McGrath. It is relatively new. We have to see how successful it will be, for a start. We do not know. We in the DRHE intend, with the support of the Department - which is very supportive of this - to see if we can tender and purchase properties that would be suitable for emergency accommodation. We are not talking about housing because that would fall under the long term leasing or enhanced leasing for the homeless we can do and we are going to run a RAS pilot in Dublin also. They would fall under housing alternatives for the homeless. In this case we are speaking about actual properties that might be suitable for emergency accommodation. As it is advanced, we-----