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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Ms Hayes said funding is not an issue. What is the biggest issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: On that basis, a circular clarifying the situation would be very important. A pot of money has been allocated to acquire properties where it makes sense to do so. We could be waiting for one and four bedroom properties to come up and, at the same time, we could be allowing families to go into emergency accommodation when they are in properties that meet their needs and will prevent them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I sincerely thank the witnesses not just for appearing before the committee today but for all the work they do every day. It is tremendous. They are dealing with the most vulnerable people in our society. We talk about the big numbers in Housing for All such as 300,000 homes and so forth, but it comes down to the individual lived experience of the people who suffer homelessness. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Does that include increasing the HAP?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: What about acquiring properties through lease?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: What about leasing properties?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I am on the north side of Dublin city. There were no new social or affordable homes built in the area in the past ten years. That is just a reality. To be fair, all of the services know my constituency very well because a large number of emergency accommodation services are being provided there. The Government has committed €20 billion to build homes, but it will take time. In the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: How can we stop them leaving?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: From my experience over the past five years in Dublin city, landlords who bought properties 20 or 30 years ago saw the value of the property drop dramatically in the crash and when the property prices began to rise again, they wanted to sell the properties, as that was their pension. Where a local authority could purchase the home and keep the family that was renting in situ, as they were on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Okay. I wish to move on to questions for the Mendicity Institution. Its report also talks to an issue we have considered, which is private emergency accommodation. We must get away from it, but it will take time. Of the 96 people who completed the survey, two thirds of them do not qualify for social housing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Could Ms Santoro tell us why they do not qualify for social housing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: A lot of the respondents were homeless for more than two years. Surely, they have a local connection after two years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Are they not getting a key worker because they are not qualified for social housing? Is that the gate? If they do not qualify for social housing or do not qualify to get on the housing list in the first instance, everything flows from that point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: My question is for Dr. Burns. I thank her for her participation today and all the work she is doing. In terms of the updating that is being undertaken by the Minister for Justice of the policy on combating violence against women, gender-based violence and domestic violence, the Minister is pursuing four pillars, namely, prevention, protection, policy and prosecution. The protection part of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I propose that the committee write to the Minister for Justice to ask her to engage with Novas. It is an obvious thing to do. We will take that action arising from this meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: They are not recognised as having a housing need. It needs to be simplified.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: It is great to see Senator Pauline O’Reilly in the Deputy Leader’s chair. I hope it is the first time of many. I raise the issue of multi-denominational, co-educational secondary schools, particularly in Dublin Central. When I was growing up, there was no multi-denominational, co-educational secondary school there, and it is more than ten years since I supported a campaign...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (3 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank all the witnesses. We appreciate the time they are giving us in providing opening statements and for their promise of further documentation. It is most helpful to us in our pre-legislative scrutiny. As the witnesses stated, this is very important legislation and we want to get it right. Archaeology is something that sounds dusty and old, but I agree with Dr. Greene's point that it...