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Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Seeing as we have no other Senators offering contributions, we will now move on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: How many of those are social workers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: All right. That brings me on to this point which goes back a number of months ago. I will address this to Mr. Kehoe, the CEO. I am new to the housing committee so there is a lot of terminology and acronyms that I am trying to catch up on. At recent LAMA and CCMA conferences I could not understand how we did not put a focus on social workers to ensure we model what is there for elder care....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I welcome the witnesses and I apologise for not being here at the start. I will start with a little statement about what I am trying to understand here. To me, when we are addressing homelessness, the key worker, who makes it all work, is the social worker. My question to the local authorities is this: how many social workers work are there in their housing departments? That is the first...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: To me, not having them or not applying for them is one thing but there is also not a funding budget for them. There is not a funding budget where social workers are specifically placed within the housing section of the local authorities. Therein lies the joined-up thinking piece. In this, needs are identified and prioritised and the housing departments link back in with the HSE and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Mr. Gleeson, but the missing piece here is the link worker. While meetings are being held every three weeks, the day the person makes the phone call or arrives to the desk is missing. The first point of contact is with the local authorities, so we need the daily pick-up person there, that link worker, but also it needs to be mirrored out after that. There is a good piece that can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I will build on that point. We must look at the strategy that has been proposed and mirror the previous youth homelessness strategy into the family piece working in collaboration with the various agencies and local authorities. They have actions for prevention, wraparound services, and an exit strategy. We have seen that approach work previously.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I have two questions. I will start with the second one, which is to Mr. Mulhern. He said 96 projects are going at pace at the moment. Was universal design a consideration? How many of those projects have units held aside for people with additional needs in line with the UNCRPD? That means universal access. A person in a wheelchair needs to be able to do the 360°.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: All right. It is amazing. The Land Development Agency was in here last week and told me it was only in planning and that there was no house delivered under universal design. That is neither here nor there. It is part of the planning now. Returning to Ms Finney, when Deputy McGrath was asking a question earlier she referenced exiting homelessness into more long-term arrangements. Will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: What about more hubs? Should we be looking at having an allocation in the more rural counties?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: How many houses in the last four years were allocated to people with additional needs with universal design?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025: Free Legal Advice Centres (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I apologise for being late. I do not see it as a double entitlement. First, as Senator O'Reilly and Mr. Bowes have rightly said in their remarks, a lot of the people who pass away already have contributory entitlements. The widow or widower is actually only claiming off his or her late spouse's entitlement. If a person becomes ill, he or she becomes ill in his or her own right. That is...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I really welcome this Economic and Social Research Institute report. A bespoke piece of work like this gives us a great understanding and a wider context. At the end of the day, it helps us form policy and a direction when it talks about €773 million, because the budget last year for social protection was about €2.5 billion. I was doing a bit of research to see if there is...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I want to tease that out a little bit further. There is the figure of 195,000 children, and then there is a figure of 100,000 children in consistent poverty. Have the witnesses the data behind that research to say it is X number of families of lone parents that fall into that category? Or, it is X number of families that are in receipt of the disability allowance, for example. The...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Straight away that is an identification as to where we should be, at a very minimum, raising the bar. That is very important and I thank the witnesses for their contributions.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Thank you, a Chathaoirligh, for letting me in for just a quick question. Going back to the figure of 100,000 children, is the €770 million cost solely for the 100,000 children? Is it the cost for the 195,000 children? I am just trying to work out that figure of €770 million. What does it equate to in the number of children?