Ms Eileen Gleeson:

We have people on the street every night of the week. Housing First is having a significant impact on that particular group of people, who are at higher risk and do not, for whatever reason, want to access the normal services. We are trying very hard to engage with them. People go through detox and there is a service for that. The gap is in the lack of step-down facilities. When they leave detox, they need to go to a step-down facility so that they do not go back into the same pattern they were in before they went into that service. If we can get them to a step-down facility and work with them to progress out of it, it would be much more beneficial. We need more step-down facilities.