I go every Sunday to St. Patrick's Cathedral. Last Sunday a special prayer was said for a man called Edward. His name is all I know about him. I asked why they prayed for him and I was told he was found dead on a patch of waste ground near the Cathedral. He used to come into the Cathedral just to be near other people. This is the kind of extreme dealt with by organisations like Focus Point and the wonderful people who go around with soup runs. I came across an idea in a casual meeting with Anne Connolly from the Simon Community and an architect friend of hers. It is something the Government could look at in partnership with private industry. A series of container trucks could be fitted out as accommodation, driven to the places where homeless people congregate so that they could be out of the winter weather and given food and clean bedding. The trucks could then be driven away, hosed down, cleaned out and brought back at night. They would not be a visual obstruction or an unpleasantness because they would be on the streets when the city is fairly dormant in the areas where homeless people live. This is an interesting and useful idea. It would provide shelter for these people, remove them from the anxiety of having to provide for themselves in cardboard boxes and from the indignity and reproach we all feel as citizens when we see these things happening.