Dáil debates

Thursday, 13 July 2017

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions

Emergency Accommodation Provision

8:15 pm

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have complete confidence in the family hubs and in the way they have been set up, designed, built or retrofitted, and in the people who are working there and bringing community care into those facilities. I have also complete confidence in the Dublin Region Homeless Executive and its ability to carry out inspections in those facilities to make sure they are up to scratch. I would say to Members who are members of the committee and who have been invited to the Crosscare, or Mater Dei, facility to visit and get a better understanding of exactly what we are talking about when we talk about these family hubs. They will understand from the care workers there that everything that is happening in those hubs is being driven by the communities there in terms of what they want to see and what rules or charter, which is probably the best way of putting it, they want to work under. That is the type of facility they will see there and those are the types of standards being used. The workers there are Tusla approved, separate from the Crosscare, or Mater Dei , facility, and they work together in these family hubs for those families. I am very happy and confident in the standards I have seen so far to date.

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