Mr. Graham Doyle:

This is a very significant priority issue for the Department. We have seen significant presentations to homeless services over more than the last 12 months. As the Deputy knows, the numbers at the end of October stood at 13,179 people accessing various forms of emergency accommodation. There are just over 9,000 adults and almost 4,000 children associated with that. So far in 2023, we have seen just over 2,500 adult presentations and just over 2,000 adult exits. Obviously, there are families involved in some of those situations. We continue to see significant presentations. Some of them are international, some are people who are coming from other situations and some are people who are becoming homeless having been accommodated here over a number of years. We are seeing significant activity. With respect to the emergency accommodation mentioned at the beginning of the Deputy's question, additional emergency accommodation has been brought.