Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Harty outlines his concerns with great eloquence and I do not disagree with anything he identified, except for his initial point. The actions I identified will be helpful and I hope they will enable in a very significant way the children in homeless and emergency accommodation to find ways to move towards a sense of normality, in spite of the fact they are homeless or in emergency accommodation. It is a significant part not only of our plan but of our movement towards taking away any sense of homelessness for children. That is the part of the plan within my brief. Outside the brief there are a huge number of actions within a number of other settings of the plan to help reduce the child homelessness spoken of by the Deputy.

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