Housing
Darragh O’Brien: Homelessness remains main challenge for coalition, tax row “overplayed”
It comes as a record breaking 12,000 people access emergency accommodation last month
Homelessness remains the number one challenge for the government, the housing minister has said.
Darragh O’Brien was speaking after the latest homeless figures showed there were 12,259 people in emergency accommodation last month - a record-breaking figure for the Department.
“Actually, if you look at quarter one of this year, we managed to exit and prevent about 1,500 people from going into homelessness,” O’Brien told reporters in Dublin. “Fundamentally the way we deal with this ...
