Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion

Ms Siobh?n Byrne:

Survivors have a lot of medical issues. I do a lot of work with survivors to get them on the priority list of housing. Depending on where a person lives, there are different priority lists. In my work I advocate to get survivors on medical priority one, which is the top of the list. It is still an issue that people can be waiting a really long time to receive an offer of a place. The issue is homelessness and that all comes down to people's mental health as well. What they suffered as children has affected them all their lives.

It is mostly men who are having difficulties with homelessness. I believe the council should prioritise survivors regardless of their medical needs and they be given top priority because of their age.

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