Mr. Wayne Stanley:

On the youth homelessness strategy, we are a member of the Irish Coalition to End Youth Homelessness. One of our members sits on the steering group for the youth homelessness strategy, and another member is on the national homeless action committee, NHAC, so we have two representations on it. From the reports we are getting from that committee it seems to me that good work is being undertaken. When it comes to young people the challenge will be to get joined-up thinking across agencies to make sure the supports reach the young people as and when they need them. There seems to be good engagement on it. They are awaiting such things as Tusla’s development of its own strategic plan. Youth homelessness should be in the body of that and a priority within it. We will see the outflow of the success of the strategy in the coming months. A good deal of preparatory work is still being done. It certainly sounds positive but we always judge these things on the results as the Senator rightly said. Hopefully we will start to see results quickly.