Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is about cross-party co-operation. Does the Minister accept we are talking about a different type of homelessness when we see families with children who are homeless as a consequence of a shortage of accommodation? It has a knock-on effect that will be picked up through the damage done to children because of the crisis in their families. They do not know where they will be in a week or two. Now, a different group is being affected. I have never experienced it in the long time I have been a public representative, mostly at local government level.

This is an entirely different position, and I hope there is acceptance at the Government level that this is an emerging crisis. It has already started in some locations.

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