Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

To pick up on that point, the most recent report gave a figure of approximately 40% of households in emergency accommodation being from EU-EEA or non-EU-EEA third countries. It is approximately the same percentage as the CSO figure of households living in the private rental sector headed by somebody not born on the island of Ireland, which probably makes sense. The 25% figure is really interesting because that would suggest that, certainly on council lists, there is an underrepresentation given that it would be expected that, both because of their income profile, as they leave the private rental sector, a larger portion of households headed by somebody born outside the island of Ireland would have a social housing entitlement. It would be interesting if those HAP and RAS figures were available because I suggest the percentage would increase from 25%. That would be useful to know.

I have two questions about the emergency accommodation issue. I am very clear this legislation does not deal with any of that and therefore Mr. Kelly's answers are very clear. Is it correct that there is nothing in the 1988 Act that, in and of itself, would allow a local authority to refuse emergency accommodation because somebody did or did not have an active social housing application and that this is not a criterion set out in the 1988 Act in order to be deemed eligible for emergency accommodation?