Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 31 May 2016
Committee on Housing and Homelessness
Sonas
10:30 am
Dr. Stephanie Holt:
I will add to that. In terms of how the current crisis has emerged over the past year, I echo Ms Ryan's point on male victims. We are very aware of that. The crisis to which the committee has a responsibility to respond is primarily about households headed by single females. That is what the statistics tell us. The statistics for male single homelessness have not shifted all that much over the past 15 to 18 months. What has spiked quite considerably is single female-headed households with children, and that is why our focus has been on that demographic.
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