Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Today, we have all been listening to the budget and I know we will debate it later. Today is also World Homeless Day. We are now in 2017 yet we have 8,270 people in emergency accommodation and 3,048 of them are children. When I heard a Fine Gael Senator say that housing is being built I was a bit surprised. I am a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government and the committee has been told that there is loads of money. Yet, today on budget day, there are 8,270 people living in emergency accommodation and it is not right. It is unfair and it is unjust.