The CEO of the charity Depaul has spoken of the importance of early intervention in helping people avoid entering homelessness.
Speaking in advance of the public of the Depaul 2025 Impact Report, David Carroll told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland that in the midst of a housing crisis, Depaul had managed to move 900 people back into the community from temporary accommodation.
People were under incredible pressure from a cost-of-living point of view, he added.
“We’ve seen the figures rise really since 2018-2019 to a situation now where we have 17,500 people in temporary accommodation, and what we want to make sure on the back of the publication of this report is that we don’t accept those figures as the new normal.
“We now have to put in specific interventions and emergency interventions in order to be able to tackle this issue and make sure that we don’t accept the figures that we have at the moment.”
Early intervention, he explained, would...
