Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

On Monday of this week, Inner City Helping Homeless, ICHH, published its Empowerment to Rights report. Some 98% of homeless people have never engaged in an official exit plan for homelessness; 87% said that the situation often leads to feelings of anxiety and depression; 40% of respondents experienced sexual assault while homeless; 84% of respondents said they were not comfortable making a complaint within the homeless services; and 65% said that they have been finding it difficult to manage their hygiene during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The press release from ICHH stated that the most frequent words used in the survey to describe the homeless experience included "shame", "dirty", "alone", "unseen", "inhuman", "lost", "depressed", "unwanted" and "scared". Does the Tánaiste think that is acceptable that that would be the outcome of the survey? What is the Government going to do about it?

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