Mr. Tom Gilligan:

I will come in on that as well. In 2022, Mayo County Council had 112 presentations as regards homelessness. They would have been made up of individuals and family members. On current numbers, between ourselves and Roscommon, we have a total of 86 adults and 76 children. We have seven individual offices that deal with housing. We have presentations in relation to that, I suppose in excess of two and sometimes up to three a week, for the country.

We have seen an increase in the number of people presenting as homeless. Obviously, this is a sensitive and difficult area. What is assisting at present is the moratorium on rents in the context of notices to quit. That will be in play until March. We are certainly working on that. We have an active team dealing with housing and homelessness. What we try to do in a sense is intervene as best we can to ensure that the situation does not become a homeless situation. We try and work with people who are in danger of losing their homes through no fault of their own.