I hope the public respond to the Government's cold-hearted decision to lift the eviction ban by coming out in their thousands on the demonstration on 1 April outside the Dáil.

I genuinely want to know what the Minister has to say to people in my area, where currently there is no family emergency accommodation at all. For his information, there is a six-month waiting list. If people are made homeless in our area, they are sent to the other side of the city. A woman wrote to me last week who is in a hostel in Drumcondra. She has to get her child to a crèche in Monkstown and if she is late on five days, she will lose her place in the crèche, which means she will lose her job because she works as a carer. She has to do that every morning. There is a six-month list. Now we are going to have dozens more people put into that situation with their families and children. What do we say to that woman and others who are going to be in a similar situation?

The Deputy may not have heard the Taoiseach's response earlier. All local authorities have been given the full financial resources to expand their emergency accommodation provision, including in the Deputy's area. The tenant in situ scheme, which is being accelerated and expanded, applies to the Deputy's area too. We are also bringing in the cost-rental scheme for those tenants whose income is above the social housing limits. This is a matter I have discussed with the Deputy on a number of occasions and, in fairness, he has made an input to that.

Is it in place now?

There are a number of measures we are bringing forward. We are also increasing the housing supply right across the country. We built more social homes last year than in any year since 1975. We have affordable homes for the first time in a generation both to purchase and to rent. We will continue to improve on that this year.