Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 24 June 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Interim Report on Mortality in Single Homeless Population 2020: Engagement with HSE
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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On that last point, I was reading research recently in Britain. It has had a significant increase in deaths of people experiencing homelessness and one of the mechanisms it has is an adult safeguarding review. Is that the same kind of idea Dr. O'Carroll is talking about, in that there is a look-back when there is a death of somebody accessing any of those services to try to see what systems failures may have taken place or what interventions could have been used to try to improve those systems and supports in the future? If it is a different kind of intervention, maybe Dr. O'Carroll could talk in a little bit more detail about what it looks like and how it would operate.