Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I have worked with a number of clients from the facility in Brittas Bay post their departure and the housing needs of the constituency and they speak very highly of their time there. I wish to put three questions to the witnesses. First, does Tiglin receive any Government funding for its work? I am interested to know if it is in receipt of any State funding. Second, its proposal on rent supplement seems eminently sensible and the amount of money it would require from the State would be very small, given the small number of people we are talking about. Has Tiglin ever had a communication from the Department of Social Protection at a senior level or from the current or former Minister for Social Protection as to what the resistance would be? Again, it would seem to be an eminently sensible and affordable proposition and one I would support. Third, an issue I have encountered in the constituency, not unlike Mr. Niall Murphy's story, concerns people who are living through addiction and homelessness. They go into residential rehabilitation following which they are still homeless. The only emergency homeless accommodation or relatively low threshold emergency accommodation in, say, in Dublin city centre would have a relatively high volume of active drug use in the dormitory accommodation to which a person who has had a detox will not want to go. It forces them to sleep rough and creates another cycle. Have the witnesses any recommendations as to how that specific difficulty for people coming out of residential rehabilitation could be addressed that we could put to the Dáil and the Minister when we make our report?