Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

Finally, Deputy Murphy touched on the communities that lost an amenity, particularly a hotel, for what was described at the time as a temporary emergency provision. There is one in my own constituency, a hotel. This is going back to 2018, when a hotel was overnight turned into emergency accommodation and the local community rallied and supported those who have been there ever since. At some point, people have a right to ask when will get their amenity back. What is happening in such instances?

The Department can understand it has a place, there are X number of people being housed there and that is a box ticked, but from a local community's point of view, it gets to the stage where their goodwill that has been there for a number of years is being stretched.