Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 July 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Link between Homelessness and Health: Discussion
9:00 am
Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Let us move away from the drug addiction issue and look for moment at childhood immunisation programmes, particularly for children living in hotels. Is the necessary information reaching these families? Do they know where they have to go and what immunisations their children have to get and when? Is that working? Are the services already in place to address this issue or are children temporarily falling off the radar? Do the witnesses know?