Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The case of Micheline and her husband should bring shame on this Government for its treatment of older people and for not being able to provide them with somewhere to live. Another issue in the same area of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown is the treatment of children in families who are being made homeless at the moment. On Friday, I scrambled around with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for a family with two children who were made homeless. They were sent to a hostel in town, miles away from where the kids go to school. The father, who works in disability services, walked into the hostel, took one look at it and said he would not bring his children anywhere near this place and walked back out again. That is what is happening to people with children and families at the moment. Another family is facing the bailiffs this week. In both cases the council is trying to work to resolve these situations, and I pay credit to it, but what this highlights is-----

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