Mary Ann O'Brien (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I wish to continue paying respects to John Corrie and I also empathise and sympathise with his family. I am speaking after all the other Senators that have spoken today.

As Senator O'Donnell just said to me, we have invested millions of euro in dealing with the homeless and thousands of people work in the sector. We can debate the matter all we like tomorrow but something must radically change. There must be a game changer that we can, once and for all, resolve the issue. As a previous speaker has said, we must dig to the bottom of the problem but we need to do something immediate. We are only speaking about it here today because this person's death happened on our doorstep but such tragedies happen every day in this country.