Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I emphasise that in April, 35 families were turned away by local authorities. The number of families in May was 55, and more than half of these were subsequently deemed to have a need for emergency accommodation. I understand and welcome the fact the housing action plan will be published early, and I hope we will have time to debate it in the House and in the new Oireachtas committee, but tonight, tomorrow and the day after families will be presenting for whom either no emergency accommodation will be available or whom the local authority will be forced to turn away. Are there additional measures which can be taken now to ensure that whether it is ten, 20 or 50 families who present between now and when the action plan is published, they will not be left out on the streets until the early hours of the morning or left to sleep rough because of the lack of emergency accommodation available in the city?

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