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Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: The Minister has failed, his Government has failed, and in some ways many people here on the left have failed because we have not held them to account. I am really looking forward to a general election to challenge the Government on these issues.

Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)

Gino Kenny: I asked the Deputy two months ago if the Labour Party would sell public land in Clondalkin and she stated that it would not.

Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: ...the horrendous cases of family homelessness that we have dealt with at my constituency office. I will pick three examples for the Minister in order to demonstrate the impact on families and young people in particular. The first involves a mother and her six children who have been living in one room for the past year and a half. Why is that happening? A mother with three boys and three...

Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: We made the point at that stage - it must be remembered that people are being evicted from HAP tenancies - that €23 billion extra would be spent over a 30-year period paying private landlords through HAP when social housing could be built instead. That has been proven by the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. The second family I know of are living in a bed and breakfast...

Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: Like everybody else here, we are exasperated by the fact that we are back again to speak about homelessness and frustrated by the sight of people walking into our constituency offices, including with children in prams, because they have been served with notices to quit and their landlords are selling the properties in which they live. There is no tangible response from the Government on...

Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)

Pat Gallagher: Hold on Deputies. We are having a reasonable debate and there is no need to interfere. The Deputy has minutes to interrupt. She is here long enough to know-----

Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I am going to answer this. I was Minister of State with responsibility for housing in the worst economic crisis and crash the country ever had.

Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: We are dealing with a crisis situation and all Deputy Coppinger can do is make political points while children are living in hubs.

Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am asking the Minister to implement the recommendations, first, for a constitutional right to housing which is supported widely in this House and is called for in the report of the Ombudsman for Children. My Housing Homeless Families Bill 2017 is stuck waiting for a money message. That is about respecting the needs of children whenever the family becomes homeless. Focus Ireland has said...

Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)

Gino Kenny: Behind the statistics there are people and behind the people are children. The report of the Ombudsman for Children, published today, gives a glimpse of what life is like for children in hubs. A hub is an unnatural environment for children. Their environment should be a home setting, where they can close the door after them and go to school. When the abnormal becomes normal we have a...

Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: On my way up from Kilkenny today, I was listening to a number of news reports on children and young people describing their family and living situation in hubs and bed and breakfast accommodation as like being in prison. As a society, we have completely failed when young people are describing their living arrangements as being like prison. I honestly do not know how many debates we have to...

Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: These statements are on youth homelessness and I will come back to that issue in the second part of my contribution. However, I cannot stand up in this House today without addressing the crucial report from the Ombudsman for Children on family hub accommodation for homeless families and the harrowing accounts and direct voices of children who are in family hubs. Before the end of the debate...

Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)

Denise Mitchell: ...number of young people experiencing homelessness has doubled in the past three years. That is before we get into the hidden homeless - those who have not presented as homeless to a local authority and who are staying on the couches of relatives or friends. We do not know how many young people are homeless but it is much higher than the number officially reported in February. I want to...

Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Following Deputy Mitchell's contribution, I highlight that at least 910 young people are homeless and there are perhaps many more in overcrowded accommodation. With regard to the aftercare issue and children leaving care, as Deputy Mitchell said, 12% of young people leaving care are homeless, and one third are at risk of homelessness. The Child Care (Amendment) Act 2015 that Senator James...

Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)

Pat Casey: Before I proceed, I wish to place on record the fact hat my family business in Glendalough has been used previously to house children in family homelessness. During my previous contribution on child and family homelessness in our Republic, I concluded by pleading to the Government to immediately declare homelessness a national emergency. Our homelessness national emergency needs a massive...

Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank Members for the opportunity to speak again about this important issue. Homelessness is one of the most urgent issues facing the Government and it is one we are committed to resolving. The situation of children in emergency accommodation is particularly disturbing. This morning, we have a report by the Ombudsman for Children's office on family hubs. This report gives a voice to...