Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 June 2016

Committee on Housing and Homelessness

Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association

10:30 am

Mr. Dick Brady:

The issue on self accommodation is not necessarily one of having staff, it is a question of people coming to us at a certain time of the day or night when we have not got anything left on the books. We will continue to try but people themselves can also help by finding a hotel for the evening. That is a first night situation and we generally catch up on accommodation the next day. It is an emergency situation that needs to be worked on in order to ensure a family and children do not find themselves on the side of the street at night but unfortunately that is the position.