Dave Ronayne has supported Cork Simon since 2004 and served as Chair of the Board of Directors for five years. Dave talks about a collaborative city-wide approach to tackling homelessness. 

”Cork city is a relatively small city both geographically and in size of population and the one thing we're great at is that we can collaborate together with other agencies.

So therefore, Cork Simon, we have a great relationship with the Gardaí, the HSE, with City Hall and with business.

We can do all this because Cork is a small enough city that everyone knows each other, and we can collaborate rather than just saying homelessness is other people's problem. It's all ours together, collectively, to try to resolve.”

Dave speaks about some of the ways that business and Cork Simon can collaborate to address homelessness ...