Ms Elizabeth Canavan:

We have been working with colleagues across government and the Department of housing on family homelessness in particular. Part of the focus has been not only on the exit but why people are coming in. There has been a lot of work done on how we prevent this and support people who are at risk. There are a number of measures the Department of housing is looking at in that space, including through the capital programme and some of the other measures around private rental that are being looked at. There is also the tenant in situ scheme and a capital allocation this year around a housing acquisition scheme but, as the Cathaoirleach points out, these people may not necessarily be eligible for social housing. That is something that is coming through a bit and one of the challenges and a lot of the measures they are trying to put in place are to bring a bit more stability to private rental in particular, because that is where a lot of these families are coming through from. They also want to look more at the profile overall of families and the reasons they are coming in. We have some data on the reasons. We know what some of the reasons are, and they are varied.