Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 June 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Impact of Homelessness on Children: Discussion

Ms Niamh Lambe:

I will refer to the hubs and private emergency accommodation. I want to be careful again and state that I am not referring to all such locations. People are congregated together, however. Many of those people are under stress and in difficulties, so issues will arise. We know that happens. Children who may have been in local authority accommodation, private rented accommodation or in a mortgaged home prior to homelessness suddenly find themselves in a large place with 60 families, or perhaps less depending on the size of the location. They are of course exposed to much more than they would have been previously.

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