Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion
2:00 am
Anne Rabbitte (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
All right. That brings me on to this point which goes back a number of months ago. I will address this to Mr. Kehoe, the CEO. I am new to the housing committee so there is a lot of terminology and acronyms that I am trying to catch up on. At recent LAMA and CCMA conferences I could not understand how we did not put a focus on social workers to ensure we model what is there for elder care. We have Age Friendly Ireland, the secretariat of which is run through Meath County Council but then it supports all the other local authorities. For the life of me, I cannot understand why we cannot ensure - maybe an ask has gone to the Minister - that we have something replicated for disabilities or for homelessness or family homelessness. At management level, within the local authorities when the 32 managers meet to brainstorm, have they ever come up with that proposal to replicate best practice? I am only asking Mr. Kehoe to share with us, it is not for him solely. That seems like a good idea to me. The Age Friendly Ireland programme costs €5 million and it has a structure and it focuses on families to ensure that there is a fair, evenness of delivery. The focus is also on the lived experience of the social worker having their finger on the pulse.
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