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
Mr. Vincent Gleeson:
We do have a homeless action team that meets every two weeks in each of the county councils, with the meeting in Longford being every three weeks. I do not have the full list in front of me of how many social workers are in each county council. I know that in our own council, we have seven social workers in different departments within the homeless services of the HSE who come to our meetings to highlight issues with their clients. We also forward clients to them so we have that kind of interaction with the HSE every two weeks. It is a very good system which does a lot of the work for us.
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