Mr. Pat Daly:

On the issue of homelessness, finance should be made available to purchase small units and probably for hostels. It is a serious situation in every county, particularly in Dublin. We should be considering it. Deputy Cowen made the point about budgets. We get on to the chief executive officer, CEO, at every monthly meeting and all we hear is “I have no money”. In respect of the abolition of town councils, there were 30,000 people living in Ennis and the town council had huge budgets. That is all gone and our budgets are way down.