Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----the regional managers of the community welfare services to emphasise the discretionary power they have in the law to deal with individual cases. At this point in time, under the protocol that the Department has been working on with Threshold and other agencies since the middle of June, more than 300 families have been housed. Moreover, the Department has been rolling out tailored responses on a localised basis to the issues as they arise in different towns and cities throughout Ireland. I consider this to be the best way of reaching the families and individuals who have difficulties.

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