Voices from the summit

John McCafferty, chief executive, Threshold, with Frank McDonald,chair of Temple Bar Residents and former environment editor, the Irish Times

“The key challenge facing Ireland today is how to deliver a properly functioning housing system. But I’m not sure we’ve ever had a properly functioning housing system. I’m not sure if we know yet exactly what that might even look like.”

Eoghan Murphy, Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government

Today there are 200 fewer families in hotels and B&Bs than there were at a high point in March of this year. But ...