Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin has officially opened a 75-bed facility at Ushers Quay in Dublin city centre.<\/p>\n
The Dublin Simon Health and Addiction Centre facility cost \u20ac38 million to develop and has a capacity of 100 beds, although only 75 are currently open.<\/p>\n
Addressing service provision to homeless people on the streets of Dublin, Mr Martin said his preference is for well-established organisations such as the Simon Community do that work.<\/p>\n
He said well-meaning people get involved but may not be able to sustain the effort and may not have the right solutions to offer to people.<\/p>\n
Mr Martin did identify any group by name. He said he is aware community organisations or sometimes new organisation that tend to emerge.<\/p>\n
“I’ve seen it periodically and I don\u2019t want to too critical here, sometimes pretty well meaning people…with no real experience in the field enter into the field.<\/p>\n
“There would a lot of profile around and it doesn\u2019t sustain and sometimes the solutions may not be the right ones,” he said.<\/p>\n
He said he is not against new ideas and new approaches being put forward but prefers organisations with experience.<\/p>\n
“The new broom might be seen as much more attractive than those who have stood the test of time over many decades. It’s important to affirm experience,” said Mr Martin.<\/p>\n
He said experience in dealing with homeless people on the streets is key and he encouraged anyone who wants to get involved to do so through an established, experienced organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin has officially opened a 75-bed facility at Ushers Quay in Dublin city centre. The Dublin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-289303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}