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THE HOUSING CHARITY Peter McVerry Trust has announced it will provide emergency homeless accommodation to 100 single people and 24 families in Dublin before Christmas.
The charity said that the new accommodation represents the single largest phase of new provision it has provided to date and means that it will be providing emergency accommodation to over 600 people per night in Dublin and Kildare.
The new services are located Dublin City, Fingal, and Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown and will include two new family hubs.
The charity said the new capacity would be the largest single round of additional accommodation it has ever provided. Pat Doyle, CEO of Peter McVerry Trust said the charity was doing everything it could to provide high quality emergency shelter to those in need.
“The unfortunate reality is that the number of people in homelessness continues to grow and as a result we need to secure significant increases in emergency accommodation provision.”
“The delivery of 100 extra spaces for single adults as well as new accommodation for 24 families at this time of year is an enormous challenge not only to secure the buildings but to ensure we have the staff resources to deliver the appropriate levels of support.
Thankfully we have been able to secure those resources and we are in a position to respond with a series of new services which mark the single largest response we have made in such a short period of time.
The charity says the “vast majority” of the new services will come from brand new accommodation. A small number will be delivered by expanding one of their city centre hostels to provide more emergency accommodation to single women.
In order to get families out of hotels and to prevent other families entering the hotel system we are going to provide emergency accommodation for 24 families in two new family hubs in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown and Fingal.
“This will bring to 5 the number of family hubs that we operate. These emergency accommodation services offer a vast improvement on hotels and B&Bs. Our staff are making every effort to secure long-term housing for families in our hubs to make their stay in homelessness as short as possible.”
Peter McVerry Trust said it has worked closely with the DRHE, Local authorities and the Department of Housing to secure and deliver the new services.
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How would anything fall from a moving car on the M2 unless it was on the roof rack sounds a bit dodgy to me something just doesn’t add up .
@Fran Riley: And this part:
“This afternoon, it was confirmed that some of the outstanding pages, which contained details of some officers and staff, have not yet been recovered”
That would suggest that item was a paper notebook, or notepad, not a computer notebook.
But, as you say, how on Earth could both a paper notebook and a laptop computer fall from a moving vehicle.
(Mind you, I once did something very stupid myself, putting an object on the roof on my car and then driving away. Interestingly, it was still there on the roof when I arrived at my destination.)
@Fran Riley: Sure didn’t the Gardai lose a bag load of guns and ammo when it fell out of the back of a cop car on, was it, Harcourt Street, a couple of years ago and kept on driving.
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: You just wrote the the biggest load of gumpf here. Why don’t you pretend to yourself it’s Hunter Biden’s laptop? Fake the story saying it fell out of a hooker’s Paul McGrath – (not that you’d know what that is).
@The Irish love this shy….: The story concerning the guards is true…A machine gun and ammunition fell out of their car. A member of the public found it…Open to correction but the same thing happened again about a year later…Think Dick Springs escort lost gu s in Kerry when they crashed the car….you can Google it.
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I smell something…and it ain’t Chanel No 5
They lost the list of people whom they were supposed to inform them of the previous data breach..
Probably get lambasted for this but why are what everyone calls terrorists usually the people that are from the country that has been invaded?
Fair play to the justice system in the 6 counties, they act quick on these sort of things. Down here we had garda commissioners losing phone, laptops and all sorts, and nothing was ever investigated.
And the most sickening irony is sight of a Provo murderer pretending to care about police
@Roj Blake: 1978 called. They want your entire repertoire back
@Roj Blake: He didn’t murder any provos, wrong again.
Headline would have the reader think this was in connection to the PSNI pdf document leak.
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