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- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Mar 2024)
Emer Higgins: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, why is he allowed talk to me like this? Is this not through the Chair?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Mar 2024)
Emer Higgins: So much for working together.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Emer Higgins: I might start with the Dublin Region Homeless Executive. I thank it for the 2023 at-a-glance document. It is positive to hear of all of the preventions because sometimes that message does not get out there. It is good that the tenant in situ scheme is working. I hear what Ms Hayes is saying about homeless HAP. I suppose an increase in properties available needs to come on the market and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Emer Higgins: Can Ms Hayes talk in numbers? A total of 1,021 exited homelessness last year. What was the number the year before?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Emer Higgins: Dublin is fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Emer Higgins: So the figure 1,021 comes from those. What was it in the previous year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Emer Higgins: How was there a 6% increase?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Emer Higgins: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Emer Higgins: Okay. It is 504 plus-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Emer Higgins: Five hundred and four plus 573 is?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Emer Higgins: Which is higher than 1,021.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Emer Higgins: I understand now. I thank Ms Hayes. Even though the number of households exiting is increasing and presentations are decreasing-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Emer Higgins: -----and preventions are up, we are still talking about an overall increase of 12%. This relates to households, not people.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Emer Higgins: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Emer Higgins: Could I have the number of presentations in 2022?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Emer Higgins: I thank the Chair. I will be as brief as I can. There were 2,059 singles plus 867 families in one year, and there were 1,970 singles plus 847 families in another year, minus 1,077 and 999. Where does the increase of 12% come from? Those figures all seem similar.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Emer Higgins: The numbers are recorded over a week.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Emer Higgins: People are counted as homeless only if they are homeless in the last week of a month.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Emer Higgins: What is the rationale for that methodology?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Emer Higgins: Are those who present as new in the first week of the month and exit in the third because they succeed in getting homeless HAP accommodation not counted?