There appears to be a disconnect between the Dublin Region Homeless Executive, DRHE; the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage with regard to the housing of international protection applicants. My understanding is that these Departments are not formally working together, therefore is it possible to create a shared strategy to pull together their collective knowledge to assist these people who need our assistance?

I thank the Deputy for the question. There is a very close working relationship, in fairness, both at Cabinet level through the Cabinet subcommittee but also in terms of other mechanisms. My Department has a weekly call with the County and City Management Association, CCMA, on which the DRHE is represented, so there is a close working relationship there in terms of providing accommodation both for beneficiaries of the temporary protection directive and also international protection applicants.