Mr. Eamonn Tansey:

In response to the comment about innovative ideas, that would not arise in the context of short-term lettings but in the wider roll-out of Housing First for chronically entrenched homeless people. That is a commitment in the Rebuilding Ireland action plan and is being brilliantly rolled out by Focus Ireland and the Peter McVerry Trust. We need the housing units to deliver this. Local authority sites should be used to develop and build a certain allocation of homes to house people under Housing First, which is housing without preconditions and with all the wraparound supports a person will need. We increasingly see a need for a youth Housing First-style programme too. The delivery of Housing First units is vitally important for that to be correctly implemented.