Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 June 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Impact of Homelessness on Children: Discussion

Mr. Mike Allen:

The answer is homes. Quite a lot of our responses, as a society because there is no particular person is responsible, has been to say, "Look, get them off the street". The answer to getting people off the street seems to be emergency accommodation but once one puts people in emergency accommodation one has built an institution and all of the evidence shows that it is very hard to reverse out of that.