Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

While the Taoiseach acknowledges the scale of this crisis, and that is perhaps welcome, I hear no urgency or real sense of purpose from him in dealing with this issue. He lists off the things that he envisages as solutions to this crisis but the reality is that the number of homeless people and homeless children continues to rise. Let me ask him again. Faced with this crisis, what does he propose to do now to put pace on this, to give urgency and to ensure we avoid the calamity of more children becoming homeless in the course of this summer? An approach that says, "mañana, mañana, we will get it done at some stage", is not good enough, particularly when dealing with the lives of young children. The Taoiseach has been in government for a very considerable time.

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