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:

To take the last question first, they are on our website and we are very happy to circulate a copy. I would ask members when reading them to bear in mind that it is a starting point. I was involved in drafting the standards in 2014 and I have a slightly different perspective on the decision. At the time we did not think we would be relying on private emergency accommodation so our perspective back then was a shared process with the NGOs. The NGOs had developed their own bespoke standards and we wanted to standardise the standards across emergency accommodation. Back then we were really talking about NGO providers and we had a residual use of private accommodation that we had hoped to move out of. We did not anticipate back then the requirements for private emergency accommodation.

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