Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

There are many obscenities to the austerity agenda one of the worst of which is homelessness and of that, the worst of all is youth homelessness. There are approximately 1,000 homeless in the Dublin city area. The number has increased dramatically and the homelessness organisations estimate that 100 young people sleep alone on the streets at night in Dublin.

The Fianna Fáil Government, in one of its most disgusting cuts, cut social welfare for young people. This has contributed directly, not to job creation but to driving many young people out of the country and also into homelessness.

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