Mr. Sam McGuinness:

-----and ladies, whether from outside the country or otherwise have been denied accommodation. Local authorities would prefer if people sought their benefits from wherever those benefits were sourced. It may be the case that many are eligible to collect their benefits in Dublin but in most cases they would be connected with wherever that local authority is. The difficulty is that in many cases there is not a place to bring them in to work on those issues, because there is not the accommodation. The number of sleeping bags handed out per week could be up to 200. There is a huge conundrum of stuff. People will say there are some people who could collect a sleeping bag every night and God knows what they are doing with it. The situation on the street and the situation in emergency accommodation is at more than capacity. Unless something happens, we cannot deal with the capacity issue without having a medium and long-term plan.