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

I thank the Minister for the figure of 850 in accommodation. It is clear that he is not willing to give a commitment that those families will be moved into permanent tenancies. If I understand him correctly, he is saying that they will only be moved into other emergency accommodation if that is what is in their best interests. If somebody does not need supported temporary accommodation and just needs a home, will the Minister give a commitment that those people, at least, will not be put into other emergency accommodation? Will he also give a clear commitment that he is not currently looking at properties that are hotels, whether they are currently tenanted or not, to lease out and redesignate as family hubs? That would simply be leaving people in hotels and classifying them as something else. While the Minister is not going to get time in his answer here today, can he e-mail members of the Joint Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and give us some indication of what the month-by-month targets are going to be between now and June, to demonstrate convincingly that he is going to meet this target?

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