Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Let me finish the point. He spoke about solutions. I thought he was going to give a list of ideas, but he sat down without providing any solution and then went out through the door. In fairness to Deputy Michael Collins, he referred to the rural resettlement scheme, with which we totally agree. There has been some movement in that regard and we want to see more. It is a good solution. It does not provide new houses but uses existing houses, something we all want to do. I have not heard many idea for how we can physically provide more houses faster.

More than 7,000 adults who were homeless in the past 18 months are no longer homeless. We do not deny that there are still close to 10,000 people homeless.

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