Dr. Una Burns:

We are not involved in that process at the moment. A couple of years ago, refuges and homelessness were separated. People who experience domestic violence are not included in the official number of people who are experiencing homelessness at the moment. They are quite separate matrices in terms of the way they are measured. I am not sure that is really helpful because many of the women we support, particularly in our dedicated female services in Dublin, but also right throughout the country in our mixed-gender services, are victims of domestic violence, as well as sexual and gender-based violence. Domestic violence is the reason they are homeless, so there needs to be more cohesion between those two sectors. It would be great to be involved in that process.