Homelessness has reached another record high with the data showing 15,747 people now in emergency accommodation.

The Oireachtas Committee on Housing was told that families and children are ‘sinking’ in homelessness.

The effect of austerity on Ireland, imposed after the economy tanked in 2008, was raised as a concern ahead of the threat of US tariffs

Here, we have a look at the issues likely to dominate political discourse in the week to come