Ms Rita Tighe:

I said that €250 was the bottom line but the reality is that we are going to the market value and to the asking price in a lot of cases, especially with big families or where there are medical issues because they can be paid under the article 38 provision in any event. We are going to €1,300 and €1,400. In general, we do not turn anybody away to become homeless. We have been very supportive to people in Dublin 15 who come to us for payments for emergency accommodation. If their source accommodation was in Dublin and they end up in a hotel on the outskirts and have to go to and from schools or their community, then we help them out with that.