Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)

I wish to save time a Cheann Comhairle. I am sure the Minister of State can deal with two questions together. Not for the first time I had a disturbing conversation at lunch time with a 17 year old girl who has been sleeping on the streets of Dublin for the past two nights with her two year old daughter. In the context of the census will a mechanism be in place to accurately measure the number of people who are sleeping rough, their ages and background details? Has that been factored into the planning? I accept it is possible to get information on people who are in hostels but, unfortunately, many homeless people are not.

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