Homeless agencies have said that the number of emergency beds in Dublin should be close to meeting current demand by this weekend.
It is understood there were 15 empty beds in hostels around the city last night.
A total of 84 extra beds are expected to be available this weekend with work being finished on three new facilities at Ellis Quay, Little Britain Street and Carman's Hall, which is being opened pending the hearing of a legal challenge.
Sam McGuinness of the Dublin Simon Community said there were 88 people found sleeping rough in the city centre this morning.
That compares to 168 counted by the organisation’s outreach teams last September.
There are usually around 70 people sleeping on the floor of Merchants Quay Ireland's 24 hour cafe who are not included in the rough sleeper counts.
Mr McGuinness said he is hopeful that the extra beds this weekend should be "close to meeting demand".
However he added "from experience we know that when extra beds become available in the city centre people start to appear from the outskirts. We will be preparing for that and dealing with what happens".
This evening, a statement from the Taoiseach's office said that there was a 40% increase in homeless funding from €70m in 2016 to €98m in 2017.
It also said that it will "provide funding to ensure that 3,000 individuals and families will move out of emergency accommodation into longer-term housing" next year.
In relation to the number of beds for rough sleepers, it said that 210 "additional emergency beds are being provided in Dublin city centre." It said that this brings the total number of emergency beds available in Dublin to 1,800.
