Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Homelessness costs an absolute fortune, but there is another cost and it is building trauma into children's lives and life experiences. As we know, the more adverse childhood experiences a child has, the more it impacts his or her life expectancy, health and educational attainment, missing milestones for babies and so on. This is a tribunal of the future. It is costing more and getting worse, and it has become normalised. Now we talk about numbers every month. What will the Minister specifically do to address child homelessness that is more than he is doing at the moment? Does he have any new specific strategies to deal with child homelessness?

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