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

I thank the Deputy for the question. It is true to say that housing supply has not caught up with demand yet, but it is catching up. Every month construction is starting on more than 2,000 new homes on sites throughout the country. We continue to have families in emergency accommodation and that is unacceptable. We continue to have high levels of presentations of families in emergency accommodation but despite that, there are fewer families in emergency accommodation tonight than there were this time last year. We continue to make a huge response by providing both emergency accommodation and new homes for families. The 10,000 new homes added to the stock of social housing are not a small number. I began my budget engagement with the Minister for Finance some time ago. We are in the middle of that, and a priority for me in those budget negotiations is ensuring that we have all relevant supports in place. That includes emergency accommodation, as well as continuing to work through Rebuilding Ireland, which in just two more years will have seen the introduction of 50,000 new homes into the stock of social housing. We have not seen that in this country for quite some time.

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