The €800-per-month scheme for pledged accommodation for Ukrainian refugees has been quite successful. I know many families who have been housed as a result of the scheme. We can learn from what has happened with it. Will the Government consider expanding the scheme to include other cohorts of people in need of housing, including, for example, those who are currently classified as homeless? Will it also consider reviewing the rates paid under the scheme as an incentive to try to bring units, particularly those on the short-term rental market, into use as long-term accommodation? This could be done relatively quickly and could supply many new units for people desperately in need of housing.

I thank the Deputy. We are always open to examining new ways of making more accommodation available. Where there is spare capacity in homes, we have looked at all the different policy levers we have to see how we can encourage people to make those rooms available. As the Deputy knows, we have a very generous rent-a-room relief scheme. Up to €14,000 of income can be received tax-free. The Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Humphreys, has made a change from a social welfare perspective to ensure that people can receive income when they rent out a room in their home without it counting against them in the context of their social welfare benefits. We will, however, consider the points made by the Deputy to see what more can be done and what other options there may be to allow more accommodation to be freed up around the country.