Conor Sheehan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I have a number of different questions and I thank the witnesses for their time.

In 2017, my colleague Jan O'Sullivan introduced the Housing (Homeless Families) Bill, which sought to amend the Housing Act to impose an obligation on local authorities to treat families as a unit. There was talk that the Government was going to accept this as part of the 2024 miscellaneous housing Bill but that obviously did not occur. How do the witnesses feel that would impact the work they do and the question of us fulfilling our obligations under the Geneva Conventions? Given the amount currently being spent and the use of emergency accommodation, should consideration be given to transitioning towards State-owned emergency accommodation? The homelessness crisis in which we find ourselves has been a permanent crisis for the last ten years.

Regarding discharge from direct provision and people not being provided with suitable accommodation, do the witnesses feel the Department of justice is failing these people? It seems people are being told to leave IPAS centres, for example, but are not being given any sort of suitable alternative other than to present to emergency accommodation.

I also want to ask about the impact of pulling bundle 3 of the PPP in Dublin and whether a resolution to that has been agreed and found.