Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Children are being wronged at present when they must go into homeless shelters and centres, where they are being accommodated in overcrowded conditions with other people who have addiction problems. Children should not have to be put in places such as this. I appeal to the Minister to rectify this anomaly. The homeless centres we have are not adequate. When people are evicted from their houses or when their tenancies are taken from them, families find themselves in these very unfortunate situations. It is very wrong and hurtful for children at the start of their days. It was an ideology of de Valera that all the children of the country should be cherished equally.

I also regret what the Labour Party did in the previous Government to families throughout the country-----

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