Maureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

As we are talking about special housing needs, I want to mention two other groups. The first is prisoners leaving prison who are facing into homelessness. I know there is an overlap with homelessness on this but there are a couple of groups who work directly with former prisoners. The other group is those in recovery from addiction. Again, the difficulty is because of the lack of housing stock. For those in recovery, being in hostel accommodation where there is much active drug and alcohol use going on is difficult. This is another area of special housing needs that, if we get it right, we can prevent a revolving door.