Introduction.
The Simon Communities of Ireland is the federation of six communities in Cork Dublin,
Dundalk, Galway, the Midlands and the South East. Simon has been working with and on
behalf of people who are homeless in Ireland for over thirty years. The issue of mental
health and homelessness has been of key concern to our organization for a substantial
period of time and we very much welcome the opportunity to submit to the Expert Group on
Mental Health Policy. We hope that in the formulation of new national policy every effort
will be made by the Expert Group to take into consideration the views of people
experiencing mental ill health themselves, and in particular the views of people
experiencing both mental ill health and homelessness.
