Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)

They are unaccommodated. There are 600 of them now and there were 3,000 of them last year. We do not know where they are but they are not in emergency accommodation. There is no emergency accommodation for homeless IPAS people as there is for people who are homeless and on the list. What we do, however, for people to whom we cannot offer accommodation is pay them a sum of €113.80 per week. We have a situation where there were 3,500 such people but that is now down to 600. We have gone back to many of them and offered them accommodation but a significant number do not want it.