Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Furthermore, there are at the moment 6,300 emergency beds through all the local authorities for single people and beds are available for 1,500 families. We would like to see more. There are 2,000 coming onstream across all local authority areas which is something we very much want to bring onstream.

Over the past year, more than 5,700 people were either taken out of homelessness or prevented from going into homelessness. During the moratorium, there were nearly 1,500 such people. That is once again overlooked.

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