Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This Government has been honest with people. We introduced the winter moratorium to mitigate pressures people faced over the winter period. We did so in the face of a cost-of-living crisis. We said at the time that we would use the period of the moratorium to ramp up supply. For the information of the Deputies opposite, I will briefly outline the facts of what we did during the period of the moratorium.

In the last quarter of 2022, almost 6,000 new social homes were delivered, including almost 5,000 new build social homes. At the same time, 1,532 local authority homes were refurbished under the voids programme and brought back into use. Just prior to and during the period of the moratorium, local authorities opened 500 additional emergency accommodation beds and 170 cold weather beds. A total of 734 adults and 346 families exited homelessness in the fourth quarter of last year.

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