Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 May 2016

Committee on Housing and Homelessness

Tiglin Challenge

10:30 am

Mr. Phil Thompson:

I was not sure if we had enough time to get into that. We are discussing the issue of homelessness. We receive referrals through homeless services around the city. Prison link workers are quite an interesting referral source because they spot the motivation on the landings from which they operate. We have strong links with the Probation Service. GPs and rehabilitation integration workers have been a valuable source of referrals around the country. Their role is to help a person track his or her journey throughout addiction, from the very first phone call right through to re-entry into society. We get a lot of word-of-mouth referrals, and we try to link them in with a local service in order that a comprehensive needs assessment can be done locally. That referral can then be sent to Tiglin.

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