Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not need someone to go to the courts to advocate for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. We are doing a great deal of work with the local authorities and through funding our partner organisations, such as the Peter McVerry Trust and Focus Ireland, to put in every care and support we can for people sleeping rough, people in emergency accommodation or people at risk of entering emergency accommodation. Next year, the Government will spend more money on housing than it has ever spent in a single year.

That is the commitment and dedication we are giving to solving our housing problem and our homelessness crisis. We have to ask ourselves a question about the balance of power and responsibility between the Judiciary and the Oireachtas when it comes to the allocation of resources. That is something the committee is looking at. That said, we can find ways within the existing constitutional provisions to look at the current balance of power between the individual and the collective to see if we can rebalance it towards the collective.

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