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

Last Thursday, I accused the Minister of wrongly having families in emergency accommodation or who are homeless removed from the March homeless report. I spent much of Friday and early today talking to senior officials and front-line staff in local authorities and voluntary sector organisations and I am more convinced now than I was last week that the vast majority of those families are indeed homeless and still in emergency accommodation situations and they should be included in the figures. I hope the Minister can provide some clarity to justify the decision to remove 600 adults and children from the March homeless figures report.

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