Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

While nobody expects the Department of Defence to be a housing body, Kildare County Council has 6,757 social housing applicants, of whom 39 individuals and 12 families with 35 children are in emergency accommodation. Last year, the Minister was to be commended on the role he took on behalf of his Department in addressing the homelessness crisis in Dublin when he offered accommodation at St. Bricin's Military Hospital in the aftermath of the tragic death of Jonathan Corrie not for from this House. Does the Minister not see a fundamental inconsistency in that, at a time of housing crisis, his Department would pressure people out of existing accommodation, notwithstanding the fact that many of them should have long since left the accommodation? If they did not leave the accommodation during the good times, to try to push them out during a housing emergency is unreasonable.

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