Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 24 January 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Simon Shevlin:
We have a homeless forum. We work on the Housing for All. We house people. We allocate people emergency accommodation. We work on the statistics to find those people long-term accommodation. I do not have our current figures to hand but we are trying to reduce homelessness as much as we can. What happens is that if somebody comes to the municipal district, he or she is either allocated emergency accommodation by us or given vouchers for bed and breakfast accommodation or a hotel in the locality. We have specific houses around the county which are designated for emergency accommodation for families with young children, etc. That is how we manage at present.
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