I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes: — with escalating alarm, the ever-deepening homelessness crisis; — that in November 2023 13,514 people, including 4,105 children, were in Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage funded emergency accommodation; — that when all hostels and rough sleepers are included the true level of homelessness is closer to 20,000 people; — that these figures do not include the tens of thousands of people sofa surfing or living in inadequate and inappropriate accommodation; and — that…

The CSO data is there.

That is not true, it is €1.7 billion more.

That is also not true.

What the Minister is delivering is rising homelessness-----

-----month on month on month. He is delivering rising homelessness-----

-----for adults, children-----

-----families, single people; rising levels of homeless.

That is his legacy and his record.

We were very restrained today.

That is right.

Hear, hear.

The motion before us today is about homelessness. I think it was very telling that the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, spoke for ten minutes, and only 30 seconds of that were about the issue of homelessness. I counted it on the clock. When the Minister of State started to speak about this same issue, he talked about the recent rise in homelessness. The Minister of State has been in government for 12 years. Every single year since his party has been in government, seven of them propped up by the Tánaiste's Fianna …

I urge the Government not to do it a second time around. We have called on the Government to increase the funding for domestic violence refuges. We have about a third of the refuge space that is required for women and children fleeing domestic violence and coercive control. We have no got answer from the Government on that as well. Crucially, we have called for the reintroduction of the ban on no-fault evictions. We know what the Government's position is on that because it voted down our legislation in December. We…

Yes, you can.

Not too long ago, my constituency colleague Deputy Ward and I met with approximately one third of the school principals in our constituency. Those people represent 20 separate schools of all types of patronage and children of all ages. The purpose of the meeting was to ask the principals about they face. Every one of those principals stated that they had permanent contracted positions in their schools that they simply could not fill. A number of schools had as many as three contracted positions that they could not …

Not true.

The Government missed its targets.

The Government missed its targets.

The Government cannot hide that it missed its targets.