Mr. John O'Connor:

I will start. I thank the Senator. In terms of picking out one recommendation relevant to the area the Senator speaking about, he has highlighted the increase in child homelessness over the past number of years. We made a number of recommendations in relation to homelessness, but one was "Implement specific measures to end child homelessness." We outlined a number of actions. What we were asking there for, with all the issues in relation to homelessness, is that we should not have a situation where children are homeless. Often we talk about child homelessness as part of the general homelessness and we wanted specific action to address that.

On the question of working together, we need, across everything and particularly in the housing system, for Departments and the public and private sectors to work together. It can work if we all get focused on a common goal and we move away from what David O'Connor was talking about earlier, about everybody doing their own bits. We have to find a way. It is not necessarily unique to Ireland - it is the same in other countries - but we all need to get our shoulders to the wheel in relation to housing.

I see Sorcha Edwards wants to come in.