Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I ask the Tánaiste about the record number of people who are homeless. There are now 13,179 people living in homeless emergency accommodation. This is the highest number ever recorded in the history of the State. This includes 190 pensioners and almost 4,000 children who are growing up without a home and will spend Christmas in homeless emergency accommodation. At the same time, €220 million that was allocated and was supposed to be spent on building local authority social housing this year has not been spent and has been reallocated elsewhere. What is the Tánaiste going to do to urgently reduce the number of people who are homeless?

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