Plans to house hundreds of homeless people on a cruise ship in Dublin, Ireland, are being reconsidered.

The Dublin City Council is floating the idea of hiring a private cruise ship that could house 100 to 150 homeless people.

The cost of hiring a 200-person cruise ship is around €435,000 ($500,000) a week, which works out to over $2,300 per person for the Irish government.

The idea had previously been shelved, but due to the severity of the housing crisis in Dublin, the City Council has agreed to revisit it.

There are 1,367 families in homeless accommodation in Dublin and this figure is increasing year on year.

Eoghan Murphy, the Irish minister for housing, set a target to house 300 homeless families but was told by the council it was “unlikely to be achieved” unless they considered previously rejected strategies.

After having said it “would not be suitable” in the past, the council will reconsider the cruise ship idea as a possible way to meet housing targets.

The Irish government has recently dedicated $70 million to housing the homeless in emergency accommodations, and much of this may now have to be spent on renting the private cruise ship.

It had been pitched as a way to house single homeless men, according to Brendan Kenny, head of housing services at the City Council.

He told the Irish Times the plan “never really got legs” but “it is something we are not ruling out.”

Twelve thousand people took to the streets of Dublin to protest the housing crisis Wednesday, calling the campaign #RaiseTheRoof.

While Murphy stressed Wednesday night that emergency housing would be put in place, he later tweeted that the cruise ship plan is not suitable for homeless families.