500 so-called 'posh prefabs' are to be ordered to ease the country's housing crisis.

The move was approved at cabinet today - including 150 which could be present by Christmas.

The news comes as the Dáil debates the homelessness crisis following the death of Alan Murphy on a street near Leinster House.

Sinn Féin's environment spokesman Dessie Ellis says minister Alan Kelly hasn't been doing enough to control the rental sector: