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

Figures were released earlier this week showing that there has been a disastrous 55% increase in the number of homeless families and children in the past year. Most of those are in Dublin - 911 children, or 411 families - on top of an already disastrous homelessness crisis in Dublin for individuals, families and young people. How can the Minister say he is taking serious action to deal with this crisis when what he promised goes nowhere near dealing with it, and the allocations he has made for new houses in Dublin are lower in percentage terms than the national average, according to his own figures?

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