The Taoiseach presides over a homelessness catastrophe. We have 12,000 homeless people, more than 3,000 of whom are children. Some 3,000 eviction notices will fall due in April. What is an acceptable level of homelessness? Will the Taoiseach tell us where those 3,000 households will go in the event of losing the roof over their heads? Will the Taoiseach guarantee to this House that no family will be forced to present itself at a Garda station to be accommodated? Can the Taoiseach give those guarantees as he moves ahead with the Government's catastrophic decision to lift an eviction ban and to plunge thousands of households and families into chaos and distress?

I thank the Deputy. I am not sure if that is a further leader's question or a question on promised legislation. I will be guided by the Leas-Cheann Comhairle as to the length of the response because that seemed to be a number of different questions.

The Taoiseach has one minute and the time is running.

Okay. We are going to have a debate on this today, as I understand it, and a vote on it tomorrow.

We have instructed local authorities to provide additional emergency accommodation, if it is needed, and we have been very clear with them that the tenant in situ scheme should be used. The resources are there to purchase 1,500 homes so if somebody is a social housing tenant, the house can be bought by the council or an approved housing body and the tenant can move from being a HAP or RAS tenant to being a proper social housing tenant. That is actually a positive thing, in my view. When it comes to people who are above the income limits, we can use the cost-rental mechanism.