Mr. Mike Allen:

Yes, that is correct and it includes men, women and children. We can only go back in the same series to 2014 when the current definition was introduced and we started to publish statistics. Professor Eoin O'Sullivan from Trinity College, Dublin and I - it was mostly Professor O'Sullivan - did some work in looking at comparable figures before that date. We have found that we have much higher levels of homelessness in Ireland today than ever before.