Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Last week, I was contacted by a constituent who had received a letter from Cork City Council stating it had no emergency accommodation. All it was short of saying was that there was no room at the inn and people should go out to the stable. The crisis in emergency accommodation and homelessness in Cork is now so bad there is nowhere to put people. I received an email from a husband and wife who have two children aged five and one and have lived in emergency accommodation for 16 months. The mother told me it is soul destroying and heartbreaking. She is at breaking point and does not know who to turn to. This illustrates the homelessness crisis. This Government's policies are keeping these families in emergency accommodation. Where is the light at the end of the tunnel? I want to give this couple and the other lady hope. Can the Minister give me hope for them today?

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