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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: I am going to try to be concise if the witnesses could give direct answers. For the two local authorities, how many tenants in situ forms were completed in 2023? How many are in progress and how many were refused?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: Sorry?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: How many are in progress of those 129?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: How many were refused?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: I know of some situations where landlords do not want to take up the tenant in situ option. Even though the witnesses are trying to buy the house, the landlord does not want to sell it. How many refusals or things like that have we got? I apologise to the Chair, as I have to go to a vote. Can I follow up with my section later?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: I thank Mr. Ó Donnabháin. For the Dublin Region Homeless Executive, how many tenants in situ are completed, how many are in progress and how many were refused?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: How many were refused?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: Great stuff, I thank Ms Hayes. In relation to Cork City Council, how many people utilising emergency accommodation in Cork city last year passed away?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: While Mr. Ó Donnabháin is looking for that, Simon referenced here that there were 17 people that it was dealing with. How many additional people?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: I appreciate that, Chair. Going back to Cork City Council, and the Dublin Region Homeless Executive might respond, how many tenants were refused in 2023 by Cork City Council?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: Would the figure be that plus the 17 Simon was dealing with?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: I will check that with Simon when it is in later. What is the corresponding figure for the Dublin Region Homeless Executive?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: There was a facility in Cork specifically for survivors of institutional abuse. Unfortunately, that is also being used now to accommodate people in emergency accommodation. That was specifically for people who were victims of institutional abuse. Is it possible that that would be returned to that category of person? Does the Dublin Region Homeless Executive have a similar facility or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: What I would ask is that for those who were victims of institutional abuse, places would remain open for them. Lastly, in relation to people in recovery, I am being told - Ms Hayes touched on it earlier - that people who come out of treatment who were in recovery because of things they have done in the past are failing to get access to homeless emergency accommodation. What is the policy in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: The committee might come back to it later on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: I want to go back to Cork City Council and the DRHE with regard to people in recovery. I am concerned that issues in the past prevent from accessing emergency accommodation people who come out of treatment and are in recovery. Is this something the witnesses are looking at?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: I thank Ms O’Brien. Mr. Ó Donnabháin mentioned there were 103 homeless families in the Cork and Kerry region, with 55 of them in Cork. This means there are 48 homeless families in Kerry. Is this correct? Are all of the homeless families in Cork included in the 55?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: There are 48 between Cork county and Kerry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: I was contacted by two schoolteachers who said they were very concerned about pupils who are very good in school but whom they have seen go backwards because their families have entered emergency accommodation. One of the teachers asked me what is being done and whether Cork City Council is looking to keep families as close to their communities and schools as possible. Whether it is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: What about Dublin?