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

As Deputy Boyd Barrett knows, it is often the case that when we drill into those individual cases it can be quite a complicated story. In some cases people have been offered social housing and they have not accepted it, perhaps for good reasons, and in other cases they may not be entitled to social housing at all. An increasing feature of people in emergency accommodation is that they do not have an entitlement to social housing. That is something we are going to need to find a solution to, because it is making the problem more complex to solve. As I have said before, the solution in the vast majority of cases is going to be additional social housing and new tenancies, whether HAP or non-HAP. There were 50,000 new tenancies created last year. I hope there will be roughly 50,000 new tenancies created this year. That will be the solution for the vast majority of people. That is the answer to the question of where people go in the vast majority of cases.

In response to Deputy Cian O'Callaghan's question, I know of cases where judges have given a stay on issuing an eviction order. I would be happy to, with their permission-----

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