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

In regard to the modelling question, which I have answered on numerous occasions, this is an area that is almost impossible to model statistically. First, there are lots of reasons people end up homeless in emergency accommodation, for example, family breakdown. There is no way of statistically modelling how many families are going to break down in the next month or the next six months.

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