Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 July 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Impact of Homelessness on Children: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Albert O'Donoghue:

When the inter-agency structures were originally put in place by colleagues in the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government we realised, from our perspective, that there was an opportunity to expand the current capital acquisitions scheme to include a small cohort, in the region of 5% to 6% of caregivers annually, who might be at risk of homelessness. What the expansion provided by Ms Hurley, Mr. Kelly and their colleagues in the Department allows us to do is to draw down capital funding, with approved housing bodies, to provide accommodation for that particular cohort of young people. Those designated units will be for young people leaving State care.

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