Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----in other cases it will be a private housing tenancy and in other cases it will be a housing assistance payment, HAP, tenancy. Emergency accommodation is not the solution but we will increase the amount of emergency accommodation for a group that may need it that cannot find a place to go.

Deputy McDonald is trying to exploit people's fears and anxieties and, if anything, fuel them. That is what the Deputy is trying to do - exploit fears and anxieties and fuel them. When the Deputy should be trying reassure and help people, that is not what she is doing.

The Deputy is creating the impression that 4,000 notices to quit automatically turns into 4,000 families in emergency accommodation.

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