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

What the Minister seems to believe in is taking decisions that increase the levels of homelessness across the State. He had a choice. He had a choice on Monday and Tuesday to protect tenants from the imminent threat of homelessness or to support landlords. He took the decision to support landlords. That is fine and that is his position but there has been no additional supply over the emergency ban on evictions period. In fact, the Minister missed the previously promised supply targets. Regarding the tenant in situ scheme, in my own local authority area, in the year since the scheme was opened, there have been three purchases. In the Dublin City Council area, the largest urban area in the country, there have been seven purchases. That is what we are getting because of the Minister's failure to act. With respect to the tenant in situ and cost-rental schemes, all the Minister needs to do is extend the cost-rental equity loan scheme to the approved housing bodies, AHBs, but he has failed to do so.

Again, I have a very simple question. In April, when an increasing number of men, women, children and pensioners present to our local authorities, where there is no emergency accommodation, what does the Minister advise them to do?

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