Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The number of homeless persons across the State is 10,264, according to the figures the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government gave us yesterday. That is more than 10,000 people who are without a place to call a home and the figure includes almost 4,000 children. The Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, described the figures as hugely disappointing, but they are a lot worse than that; they are an absolute and utter disgrace.

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