Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion

Ms Mary Heavey:

I thank the Senator for those questions. Regarding her first question, we can provide a more complete list of certain categories that we believe are not excluded.

Before I turn to her second and third questions, as Community Law and Mediation, we do not specifically focus on migrants or the migrant communities. That is not an area of focus. We absolutely do deal with them, but it is not an area of focus in our work. Other legal and advocacy groups have greater expertise and experience than CLM on what those specific cases might look like. Those organisations include Crosscare, which was mentioned earlier, the Immigrant Council of Ireland and the Irish Refugee Council. Regarding the real-life implications of the general scheme, it would be helpful to hear from those communities and those organisations because they have the real expertise in this area. That again underpins the need for a wider consultation on the impacts of the general scheme.

Does Ms Wall have anything further to add to that?

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