Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion

Photo of Cian O'CallaghanCian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I have a very quick question for the DRHE and then a longer question for the Department. I have not been able to find the standards for the private emergency accommodation on the website. The witness said they were published but I cannot find them. I can find the reference from 2009 in the national quality standards saying that these would be for all providers. That is very clearly on the website but I cannot find the new standards that were referred to. It is important when one looks at the previous inspections and compare the questions for the NGOs and the not-for-profits for the inspections; it is some 15 pages in the document and it is quite thorough. The private emergency accommodation providers was a questionnaire of one page and a few lines, which was incredibly minimal checking with only the absolute basics. Are there different questionnaires for the inspections? Has that been done yet and can we see that questionnaire? One can get quite a lot of information from the inspection questionnaire. Has that work been done yet?

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