Ms Karen Feeney:

I am speaking very much to Galway. One of the fortunate things about Galway is that is a more manageable population. There are two emergency hostels for men in the city and one for women. We run one of those hostels and another organisation, COPE Galway, runs the Fairgreen Hostel.

There is a pretty conscious effort, and there has been a lot of work in the collaboration we have in Galway, to as far as possible keep young people - the under-25s - out of that emergency situation. This is what this project was dreamt up to do. I believe we will come under more pressure. I recall at the planning phase talking about young people ending up in tourist hostels. There is no chance of young people getting beds in tourist hostels at present because all the university students are in them. It is a completely different-----