Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 29 January 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Homelessness: Discussion

Mr. Brendan Kenny:

We are not aware of any no talking rules like that. There is no such thing as far as we are concerned and if somebody hears of something like that they should just let us know and we will deal with it very quickly.

On the last issue about the support, that is the main difference between the NGOs and the private operators. The NGOs would have more of a support or welfare type service for the people living there. We have addressed that in more recent times. We took on 25 housing support officers recently. We recruited them for the first time. They did really good work with families. That is one of the reasons there are fewer families in emergency accommodation. I think we now have five of those housing support officers working full time with single people who are in private accommodation and they are already making a difference out there. We will continue with that.

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