Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Anti-Austerity Alliance)
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To clarify, most of the families that SONAS meets that become homeless through domestic violence are households headed by single women. Does SONAS have figures in respect of this matter? I ask this because sometimes there is a reason why women do not marry the fathers of their children, a point that previously arose in the Dáil. There are underlying and serious issues involved and these women then enter a world of poverty because of that situation. We all know single parents and it is interesting to realise that these women are more likely to become homeless. How many of the women that SONAS deals with would be married or in unmarried relationships and how many of them fall into homelessness?