James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)

I am acutely aware of the impact on those children who are living in homelessness. Homelessness does have a real impact on them mentally, physically and in terms of social development. That is why I am doing everything I can to get housing moving in this country. The only way we will address homelessness, high rents and the high cost of homes is by getting supply going as quickly as possible. By next Tuesday, I will have brought 60 memos to Cabinet. Some of them might relate to reports but a large number of them relate to decisions to try to get housing moving in this country. We did it before and I believe we can do it again so we have no more children going into homelessness and we can get those who are in homelessness out of it.

We have not slashed the tenant in situ scheme. The funding allocation is very significant this year, as the Deputy knows. There was €60 million allocated-----