Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I have two follow-up questions. It was April 2022 when the Minister asked the local authorities to start the tenant in situ scheme. Why have the numbers been so low? Why are the local authorities not listening to the Minister? Why are they not acting on his instructions? Is it down to the scheme itself being too cumbersome, too bureaucratic, or is it down to resistance at a local authority level? I ask the Minister to tell me why they have not been listening to him. Second, there is no social or public housing unit that is going to be brought into stock that is going to be or should be a surprise to the Minister. There is a lead-in time for the acquisition or building of any stock. With all the analysis the Department has been doing, all the meetings the Minister has been having and everything that he knows, can he indicate what his projections are over April, May, June and July in terms of the homelessness figures and how they are going to project? The homelessness figure is 11,754 now - an all-time record. With the eviction ban ending, how high does the Minister think these numbers will go in the next three to four months in real terms?

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