Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

As the Minister knows, the number of families presenting as homeless continues to increase. The lack of emergency accommodation, particularly for families with children, means two acute problems are being experienced. The first is that a large number of families are being asked to self-accommodate, that is, to leave the homeless sections of the local authorities and to ring around to try to find hotel accommodation for themselves. We are also finding a significant number of families with children being turned away from the local authorities, having not been deemed eligible for housing, even though they are eligible. What emergency measures will the Minister introduce before his housing action plan commences to address this growing crisis?

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