Ms Mary Hayes:

In the private emergency accommodation and also in the supported temporary accommodation, STA, we get regular requests from people to move out because it is inappropriate. The NGOs tend to manage that themselves. They tend to know the people and tend to move them around. That is also done in the private emergency accommodation. The Ana Liffey Drug Project is going into the private emergency accommodation services now and would frequently come back to us with advice on sharing arrangements, what is appropriate and so on. Accommodation for people who have no addiction needs does exist. Crosscare provides a temporary emergency accommodation service in Amiens Street which is highly successful. It is for people whose only need is for alternative accommodation.