Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Government strategy to tackle the housing crisis, announced by the Minister, Deputy Kelly, at Christmas, is clearly failing. New families are reporting to homeless services every day. People are still sleeping rough and there is still no sign of a major house building programme. The Government promised to end homelessness by 2016 which is now an absolute pipedream. In the forthcoming housing Bill, will the Government include a range of measures and put some urgency on the matter? Will there even be a debate on this in the Dáil now or in the near future? What is happening is an absolute calamity.

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