Senator Aubrey McCarthy

And so what we did is we provided housing.

But then you realize the people that then have the housing, they don't have a CV.

So if I go to Pat looking for a job and I say, listen, I've been in rehab for the last six to nine months, you're not high on the agenda for getting hired.

So we set up an education program with SETU.

And so in the last three years, we've had 314 people hired.

through SETU, doing up to master's level.

So then all of that works together in a holistic way.

We've set up social enterprises to get people back to work, housing, family support.

And when all of those come together, you have a program that works.

Well, we're here in Avondale, which is an absolutely beautiful place.

But Wicklow was the first council that believed in what we were doing.

So we started to work in Greystones and we set up a transitional housing project there.

There's 34 units of housing overlooking the sea.

And Wicklow County Council bought in.

So we had a particular cohort of people living there.

And now we won the Irish Council of Social Housing Awards.

We won the Best Social Enterprise Award.

So for your listeners, there's a place called Rise at the Cove.

It's a cafe right on the beach.

That's our social enterprise.