Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 October 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community

Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Wayne Stanley:

Most the questions were directed to Mr. Dill and Ms Casey. On accommodation, the Deputy is correct that the answer to homelessness is a home. If we had more appropriate homes, we would have less homelessness because the supports and the community work are there. Mr. Dill and Ms Casey are correct that we need to make sure we are all working together and to also make sure that all the voices are heard. We did that well when during Covid we moved to a real client-centred approach. We can do much better in terms of homelessness with that type of approach. With cross-sectoral agencies such as Cena and Simon Communities Ireland working together and looking upstream at why so many people are coming into homelessness, perhaps we can build a preventative strategy as well, which would be more than welcome.

In the most extreme cases of support that we offer, we build or purchase the home as a mechanism to get somebody out of homelessness. The answer is 100% accommodation. I am not sure if I have answered the Deputy's question. Ms Fitzgerald might like to come at this point regarding the front-line experience.

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