Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The issue of homelessness in Limerick has never been so bad. There is a complete absence of available emergency accommodation for those who desperately need it. Homeless service providers have spoken to me, as they do on a regular basis, to say there simply are not nearly enough beds available in the city. On any given evening, there can be up to 70 people sleeping rough. This part of Limerick has no emergency accommodation that is available for them. The monthly Department of housing figures, although an incomplete measure of total homelessness, show that there were 200 children where the State provided emergency accommodation in the mid-west alone. This is a stark and tragic number of young children impacted by the housing crisis. I have been raising this issue on lack of services and spaces in Limerick for a number of years and it only gets worse. Does the Tánaiste agree that his Government's policy on housing continues to fail tens of thousands of people every single day and will he instruct the Minister to provide additional emergency accommodation in Limerick?

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