Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 March 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Update on Homelessness: Discussion

Ms Mary Hayes:

I think what I said was that there is a shortfall in exits compared to presentations, although I may have phrased it badly. We require to have at least as many people exiting to a tenancy as are coming in, but we are not meeting that and we have probably twice as many people coming in as exiting. While we have increased exits and we have prevented more people from entering, and we are doing both of those things right, we still have a gap to meet between the rate of presentations and the rate of exit. As I said earlier, the lower amount of HAP that we have to play with has been a big issue. We and the local authorities are trying to supplement it with social housing lettings where and when we can.

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