The number of people homeless has risen for a seventh consecutive month.
Latest figures show that 122 people became homeless in January which brings the total figure to 11,754.
The January 2023 figures also report a total of 1,609 families with 3,431 children homeless.
Simon Communities of Ireland has described the latest figures as worrying and depressing.
It said the figures show there is huge pressure on the system.
Its Executive Director Wayne Stanley said the latest figures hide what the situation would have been, had the moratorium on evictions not been introduced.
Due to the housing crisis and the cost-of-living crisis, an eviction ban was put in place by the Government from the end of October 2022 until the end of March 2023.
The aim was to provide relief for renters and homeless services during the winter of 2022-23, while measures to address security and supply were addressed.
Currently, there are calls on the ban to be extended beyond March.
People Before Profit's Eviction Ban Bill, which was introduced in the Dáil this week, seeks to provide a "comprehensive" ban on no-fault evictions for the duration of the housing crisis.
Housing campaigner Peter McVerry said the Government should adopt the bill, despite concerns that extending such a ban could fall foul of the Constitution for not being "temporary".
Speaking on RTÉ Radio's Claire Byrne programme this morning, the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture Pippa Hackett, said "nothing has been decided" regarding the ban and she said it was important to wait for the relevant ministers and attorney general to go through legal and policy areas to assess impacts.
She acknowledged that the eviction ban had been very helpful but she said there may be "unintended consequences" by extending it.
Minister Hackett said that those in the Government know that they need to act fast but that they also had to be careful, due to a significant number of landlords leaving the market.
There is concern that this will cause rent increases so she said it was about increasing supply.
The Minister added that nobody wanted to lift the ban and see a flood of people on the street.
However, homeless charities say this will inevitably happen if the Government lifts the moratorium on evictions.
Mr Stanley said it would be a mistake by the Government: "We need to see its continuation, not on a time basis, but on a results basis.
"What we need to see is a plan in place that will see three months of reducing homeless figures and the 'move on' created that gets us back up to the levels that we had in 2020, 2019, which is a doubling of the move on what we're seeing at the moment," he said.
Chief Executive of Depaul David Carroll said there's a "nervousness" across the sector as the March deadline approaches.
"A key driver of homelessness in the past year has been the exit of smaller landlords from the private rented sector combined with a lack of social and affordable housing supply. In order to create housing options, we must introduce selective tax incentives for small landlords, to encourage them to stay in the market."
Depaul said local authorities and approved housing bodies have a key role to play in delivering on housing stock and must be equipped to manage and purchase housing stock that becomes available from this source.
Depaul has appealed to landlords who are exiting the market to contact their local authorities to offer the properties for sale so that the tenants in situ can remain.
Focus Ireland has said while extending the eviction ban is not a solution, it should provide breathing space for action.
The charity has said the Government "clearly needs more time to take the measures needed, such as getting homeless families into the newly built social housing, introducing measures to stop the exodus of small-scale landlords from the market and most importantly, speeding up the delivery of social and affordable homes".
CEO Pat Dennigan has called on the Government to stop "lurching from one short-term crisis response to the next".
He called for a clear plan to tackle the problems which made the eviction ban necessary in the first place.
The charity is also calling for decisive action to keep small-scale landlords in the market and action to ensure that homeless families get a fairer share of the social housing that is becoming available.
