Aubrey McCarthy (Independent)

I wear another hat. I am involved in homeless outreach, homeless centres, etc. We have a café on Pearse Street called The Light House where you meet a lot of people and we feed up to 500 people a day. One thing I am seeing is that the emergency accommodation numbers are just over 16,000, with 5,000 of them being children, which is unforgivable given the amount of houses that have been mentioned that are in short-term lets. The whole idea of this Bill is to make sure that those housing units will go back to full-time housing. Is there any strategy in that? Is there anything being done to make sure that happens or are we just assuming that that will be the outcome?