Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As we face the crisis in homelessness and work to resolve it and help these people our first priority must be those who are most vulnerable, namely those who are sleeping rough. I will focus my comments on the actions being taken to help these people during this crisis. I will not use my comments to demonise people working in homelessness to help these people into supported accommodation, to misrepresent others, who cannot come into the Chamber to defend themselves, to normalise rough sleeping which is what this Bill tries to do, or to make homelessness a political football which I believe the Deputy and his colleagues are doing.

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