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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: He answers now.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: If the Minister wants to answer, he should go on and answer.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Raise it under Questions on Promised Legislation, Cian. I will answer you then.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I have just asked the question here now and you will not answer it.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is right.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: No answer has been given.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Lean ar aghaidh.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (30 May 2024)
Homeless Persons Supports
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (30 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: 59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take to address the rising levels of homelessness and in particular the unacceptably high levels of child homelessness. [24568/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (30 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yesterday, the Dublin Inquirer reported that the Dublin Region Homeless Executive is seeking an additional 2,000 emergency beds for people experiencing homelessness here in Dublin. Yesterday, I was in Limerick with my colleague, Deputy Quinlivan. We met with Help the Homeless Limerick, NOVAS and other front-line homelessness service providers. They described a significant deterioration in...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (30 May 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I have not seen the figures yet. We will publish them, as we do, for everyone to see. We have seen an increase in the number of exits from homelessness, which is welcome. People who find themselves in emergency accommodation are spending less time there and more are exiting into permanent secure homes. I assure the Deputy that supporting individuals and families facing homelessness...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (30 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is absolutely correct that he has turned the dial and that there has been a step change. That step change is the most dramatic increase in child homelessness under any Minister in modern times. In Cork city, Limerick city, Waterford and Dublin, homelessness is rising. When Deputy O'Brien became Minister, there were just over 2,500 children in emergency accommodation funded by...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (30 May 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: We are delivering more new social homes than the State has in over 50 years and we will do more than that again. Our plan is published and being implemented. It is happening. That is in stark contrast to the lack of any alternative. The Deputy has put nothing forward. In Cork county, there has been a 32% year-on-year reduction. In Longford, the reduction was 32% and, in Kildare, it was...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (30 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I think you do.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (30 May 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Hold on; does the Deputy want to keep interrupting as he has done right the way through? I remind the Chair that he is independent today, regardless of his party affiliation.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (30 May 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: I have maintained that independence.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (30 May 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The Chair has not asked Deputy Ó Broin to be quiet once.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (30 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Go on, Minister; talk down the clock.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (30 May 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: I have and, to be honest, the Minister is fairly good at cutting in himself. We will continue from here.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (30 May 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: All I will say is that I am acutely aware of our responsibilities and the job we have to do to drive down the numbers in homeless emergency accommodation. I chair the national homeless action committee myself and I work with stakeholders. It is a complex issue. The Deputy knows that. People enter emergency accommodation for various different reasons. We are increasing the supply and we...