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 case managers who work with the adults are funded by the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive, primarily, but we have to fundraise to meet the funding gap. The child support workers are funded by Tusla or the HSE, depending on which they are. To be clear, a significant part of the money going into the services that we provide comes from the State. Our settled view is that organisations like ourselves that specialise in certain areas, and we specialise in working with homeless families, homeless young people and people with chronic multiple needs, are better placed than the State services to provide for those services but should be funded by the State to do so.