Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 December 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites
9:30 am
Mr. Bob Jordan:
Housing First is a Government initiative that targets people who are rough sleeping or are long-term homeless, moves them into permanent accommodation and puts intensive wraparound supports around them. It is very successful. In eight to nine out of ten cases, somebody who has been living on the streets who has moved into a Housing First tenancy will remain out of homelessness permanently. The commitment in the Housing First national implementation plan, which came in under Housing for All, is for an additional 1,319 Housing First tenancies to be delivered by the end of 2026. We are fully on target for that. In fact, the target for this year is 269 Housing First tenancies. That will be exceeded. There has been no impact whatsoever from some of the issues the Deputy mentioned.