Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 8 February 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion
Ms Mary Hayes:
In the Dublin context, the steering committee has been one of the best things for us in making meaningful contact with young people leaving care and in identifying the people who are at risk of homelessness. Sadly, we probably do not have housing for everybody. There are young people who have left care who are homeless but at least there is that mechanism and that co-working which was not there previously. On addiction, I pay tribute to my colleagues in the HSE who have supported us enormously, particularly with putting in addiction and support services into private emergency accommodation, which we did not have heretofore, as well as putting in training.
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