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

I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and the Minister for their flexibility. Despite our best efforts at the water committee, the committee has just voted not to take a decision until next week. This is why I was delayed.

The Minister knows what the issue is and I am looking for very specific answers to the question. How many of the 1,239 families in the most recent homeless figure statistics does the Minister hope to have out of hotels and housed by the end of the quarter, as per the Rebuilding Ireland commitment? Where does he expect these families to go? Is it to local authority tenancies or rapid builds? Will he give a very clear commitment that none of the 700 or 800 families he will move out of hotels will be moved into any other type of emergency accommodation but will get secure long-term tenancies?

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