Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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On the emergency accommodation spend, for example, the different capital costs for the Sunnybank hub will come to about €4 million. I recently visited the St Stephen's Green facility run by the Peter McVerry Trust. It will come in at about €1.5 million to provide the beds there. Of course, some of the €60 million has been already spent during the year on the hub programme - we already have more than 20 hubs.

The Deputy asked for the breakdown of the €60 million between acquisitions, and programming and schemes for next year. The trend with increasing acquisitions has continued. If a local authority or a housing body believes there is value for money in making an acquisition which will get someone into a social housing home because that will come into the stock of social housing, it is difficult to tell them not to pursue it within, obviously, reasonable limits. Because we know leasing has not performed as we had hoped so far this year, acquisition is taking up the slack. I do not have to hand the breakdown between acquisitions for this year and what will be in the scheme for next year. We will have a clear sight of that when we discuss what happened in 2018 which we will be able to do in the first month of 2019.