Two more families are becoming homeless every day because of the government's failure to agree measures to ease the rental crisis.

That is according to Focus Ireland, which has repeated its calls for immediate measures to offer "rent certainty" for tenants.

The group is also asking the government to increase rent supplement payments - which the government previously ruled out, because it might increase rent for everyone else.

Head of Advocacy, Mike Allen, says there is nothing to back up that claim: