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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: My time is, unfortunately, expiring. At this point, are there any significant concerns that arose from the inspection by Dublin Fire Brigade that Ms Hayes talked about?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: How many properties required remediation works?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Was that 20% of all operators?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: A total of 20% of all operators were identified as needing some remedial construction works.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: They have all been closed as individual cases. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Was there resistance from the sector? Was there more resistance from public or private operators? Ms Hayes spoke about a different culture. Would she like to comment further on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: The last point I will make is that there was significant concern around the origin of people in the context of homelessness. The Minister made a very clear commitment that people's point of origin would not be something that barred them from accessing emergency accommodation. Could Ms Hayes restate the DRHE's commitment to that? I ask her to verify that, regardless of where people who...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Yes, but they are not kept on the street in order to satisfy those concerns.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Perhaps Senator Cummins can expand on it in the next slot. From the Independent Group, I call Senator Boyhan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: One of the concerns we had about the provision of emergency accommodation related to NQSF standards for public and private accommodation. Under recommendation 11, Ms Hayes talked about a process, but I did not think there was a timeline for the establishment of an NQSF for private operators. Is it possible to put a timeline on that now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: There appear to be two sets of standards for two different types of providers. Will they be broadly similar? Will there be a difference between public and private? This committee is of the view that they should not be different and the same standards should apply regardless of who operates a service.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I will allow Ms Timmons to clarify the point as it is important and then we will move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Perhaps we allow the time and we can go on to discuss it with other speakers. Ms Tobin may wish to finish the answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I thank Ms Tobin and call Senator Fitzpatrick.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: To indicate where we are, we have two party slots with no representatives here. We then have a Fianna Fáil and a Fine Gael slot. That will complete the cycle and I propose we then go to those still in the room. I have indications from Deputies Ó Broin, Cian O'Callaghan, Andrews and Senator Fitzpatrick. We will divide the remaining time between them after the cycle is complete....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I suppose the category that most comes to mind is people experiencing family breakdown. For example, a middle-aged man or woman with young children may just not feel safe going into emergency accommodation. He or she could be staying with a brother or his or her mother and therefore would find it very difficult to access the housing market. We know that homeless HAP is one of the key ways...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I accept Ms Hayes's answer. I suppose the question is not whether someone has alternative accommodation. On a short-term basis, many people can access some accommodation but it is not a sustainable or long-term option. It is called sofa-surfing for a reason. The real difficulty in cases of marital breakdown is that what often happens is the parent who does not have primary custody is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I must cut off my contribution at this point. The final speaker in the full round is Deputy Higgins.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: The four remaining speakers, Senator Fitzpatrick, Deputy Ó Broin, Deputy Cian O'Callaghan and Deputy Andrews, will have four minutes each.