Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour)
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288. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the membership of the National Homeless Action Committee; the regularity with which the committee is expected to meet per year; when the next meeting of the committee is scheduled to take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7301/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The National Homeless Action Committee is a cross-governmental and inter-agency oversight group with membership drawn from key Departments, agencies and bodies with a delivery and supporting role in tackling homelessness. The overarching objective of the Committee is to ensure that a renewed emphasis is brought to collaborating across Government to implement actions in Housing for All, along with bringing better coherence and co-ordination of homeless related services in delivering policy measures and actions to address homelessness.

I chair the Committee which meets on a quarterly basis. The inaugural meeting took place in December 2021, and the second meeting took place 7 February 2022. The third meeting is expected to take place in April.

The Committee comprises representatives from the following Government Departments, agencies and bodies:

- Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

- Department of the Taoiseach

- Department of Health

- Department of Justice

- Department of Social Protection

- Department of Education

- Department of Children

- Dublin Region Homeless Executive

- Housing Agency

- Threshold

- CCMA

- HSE

- Tusla

- Peter McVerry Trust

- Focus Ireland

- St Vincent De Paul

- DePaul

- Dublin Simon

- Simon Communities

- Crosscare