Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 May 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion
2:00 pm
Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
-----by the Communists. It is not a question of targets I have set for myself. The only target is to try to get everyone out of emergency accommodation into safe, sustainable homes. That is an ambition we all share.
When it comes to the individual cases the Deputy presents, that is the point in one regard as to why this is more difficult than people anticipate or understand. Individual families have individual needs and we have to be sensitive to those needs. That means in many instances tailored solutions for those families. The Deputy and I have spoken previously about families who become attached to a particular area because they have been in a hotel for so long and the difficulty that then presents in trying to get that family out of that particular hotel into a home that is available because they now have roots.
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