Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputy Bacik for her questions and comments. Those in emergency accommodation and homelessness remain the number one challenge for this Government. In a number of counties across the country, we are seeing continued decreases in the numbers accessing emergency accommodation and increasing exits from such accommodation. In quarter 2, 630 households were able to exit emergency homelessness accommodation into safe and secure homes. The big focus for me and this Government is to continue the increase in social housing output. Last year, we delivered more new social homes than we have done in over 50 years.

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