Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

In terms of the elements our Department is responsible for, we identified, and this is identified in the youth homelessness strategy itself, that young people leaving care are some of the most vulnerable to falling into homelessness. That is why through my Department, working with Tusla, we prioritised the aftercare strategy for Tusla. It is part of its wider continuum of aftercare looking at foster care, residential services and aftercare. As the Deputy knows, the previous Minister brought in a statutory aftercare package from 2017 as part of the strategic plan for aftercare. The supports being put in place in that are being looked at. We are looking at things like the difference in treatment between a young person who remains in education or training or who does not and the continuation of the payment of the aftercare allowance. Therefore, issues like that in terms of the strategic plan for aftercare are being examined again because those are the young people who are most vulnerable to homelessness.

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