Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Again, I offer my condolences to Ms Delaney's family. Deputy Bacik raised the same matter with me some moments ago. This is the reason the Government is committed to building 9,300 social homes this year through our local authorities and approved housing bodies. This will give us the ability to respond back and support those who are on our housing lists and those using our homeless services. I will not repeat too much the figures I had given to Deputy Bacik earlier. I spoke on our efforts to prevent people going into homelessness and while the Deputy may describe them as figures, behind every figure is a life and a life story that we are trying to improve.

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