Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I, no more than the Deputy, do not want to see any family spend an extra day in temporary accommodation such as he has described. We all care about every individual and family finding themselves in this situation. That is why local authorities are making every effort to move families, such as the family the Deputy has described, into suitable accommodation.

We need to recognise that well over 1,000 families have already moved out of such accommodation. Of course, other families may move into such temporary accommodation, as the Deputy has described. I do not know the particular factors preventing the family the Deputy described from being offered a home, but many other families in similar situations have moved on from the kind of accommodation the Deputy described. Perhaps he can give me the details of that particular family and I will bring them to the attention of the Minister, Deputy Coveney, to ascertain-----

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