Seanad debates

Wednesday, 10 November 2010

National Housing Development Survey: Motion

 

A gentleman who came into my clinic the other day told me that he was sleeping on his mother's couch in a one-bedroom old person's dwelling. He has five grown-up children whom he cannot see. They are all teenagers and as he cannot bring them to his mother's little flat, he sees them in McDonald's. He painted that sad picture for me. He has left the family home and is unemployed and there is no housing available for him. He is not in receipt of rent allowance and is destitute. I know he is only one of many. I have raised the issue of housing for single men several times before. They are just as entitled to housing as lone parents who are women.

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