Dr. Rosaleen McDonagh:

If I can, Chair, I will make a few further comments please. One is about the connection between housing and suicide. I do not want to get personal or emotional, but in my family we know of young people who were moved into houses that were lovely but within six months they were found hanging on a tree outside the back of the house. We live with that reality every day, knowing that we could have found them homes on the site, but there was no room on the site.

The other thing I would say is that the current report shows failings in categories, in particular around gender and Travellers with a disability. This means they are further marginalised. They have been pushed out of every report, document and piece of research. We are worn out just trying to survive. Thank you, Chair.