Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We also know of applications for the tenant in situ scheme that have just been refused. They are not in conveyancing. To all intents and purposes, the application should fit the model. There may be a tenant who is on HAP who is going to be made homeless and in my experience, the application has hit the wall in a relatively quick period of time. That is not in conveyancing; it has just stopped. That is a person who will have to present to the homeless desk.

What figures are the Minister is expecting when we reach the cliff edge? It is going to be a cliff edge, because the decision has been made. What figures is the Minister expecting? To what extent will these homeless figures increase in the coming two to three months? The Minister has to have an expectation as to what these numbers will be, given all the data that are out there that should be, and I imagine are, being channelled through the Minister's Department.

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