Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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I will follow up the questions on homelessness. I presume the May homeless figures will be out this week. The Minister's predecessor had a terrible habit of allowing the release of them late on a Friday or bank holiday Monday. If the Minister has seen them, will he tell them to us? More importantly, will he give a commitment that they will be released in a way to allow full and proper discussion here?

I asked a question the last day but the Minister did not have the figures. Perhaps he has them today. Of the more than 800 families that were in commercial hotels from the March figures, how many will be moved to another form of emergency accommodation? How many will be moved into permanent housing? It is an important matrix. On the mortgage to rent issue, the key innovation that the former Minister, Deputy Coveney, put into the review was a pilot around the use of equity investment firms. Is that pilot taking place and will the Minister give us some information on that? At our previous meeting the Minister spoke about 100 Housing First tenancies but was he referring to the 100 Housing First tenancies in place before the publication of Rebuilding Ireland or is this 100 additional tenancies that have come on-stream since? What is happening with the target of 300 tenancies?