Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 5 March 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Update on Homelessness: Discussion
Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source
I have a follow-up question to that. We have discussed with the Dublin Region Homeless Executive the fact that, previously, there was a certain number of on-site support workers in NGO and not-for-profit homeless accommodation, whereas they were not in private emergency accommodation. Now there are visiting support workers provided by NGOs to private emergency accommodation. What is the witnesses' view on the difference between the two of those? Are the visiting teams from the NGOs able to do the same sort of work that the on-site support workers are doing or is there a deficit there? Perhaps the witnesses could give us their views on that.
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