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THE NUMBER OF people who are homeless in Ireland has increased to more than 10,000 again.
Latest figures from the Department of Housing show that there were 10,271 people in emergency accommodation in January.
The figure includes 6,697 adults and 3,574 children, and is a rise of 540 people compared with the previous month.
Figures from the department last month showed that 9,731 people were in emergency accommodation during December, the first time the number had fallen below 10,000 since breaching the five-figure mark last March.
At the time, then-Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy said that the decrease was “a move in the right direction”.
Speaking about this evening’s figures, Dublin city councillor and CEO of Inner City Helping Homeless, Anthony Flynn described the news as “considerably worrying”.
“This is a shocking increase a month after [Eoghan Murphy] claimed a massive reduction,” he said.
The Simon Communities of Ireland described the latest increase as “disappointing”, although it said it was not expected.
“The election showed that the public is very clear that they want the homeless crisis dealt with,” the charity’s spokesman Wayne Stanley said.
“Meeting the electorate’s expectation requires an ambitious Programme for Government that will build a secure and affordable housing system that works for all.”
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If we have a rerun of the election what bets the figures drop again during the campaign…..manipulation……
@John Gill:
Smoke & mirrors John.
Bet the hospital trolley figures will be down as well.
@John Gill: it’s ok though, SF are going to fix it
@Patrick O Connell: they won’t get a chance to try because the “cartel” ffg will stick together and hold on to power
@John Gill: 12,512 homeless in Northern Ireland. That’s the journal factcheck a few weeks ago on Varadkar claim of nearly 20,000. Put SF in to solve the problem . Doing such a great job up there.
When will people cop on to them and their chicken in every pot politics. Same with health up there and don’t forget the population is only 1.8 million.
@David Glynn: dont forget the fact that they count homelessness differently to the republic.
@chihuahua: Look at my second post to get your answer. Wales has 10,000 homeless with a population of 3.1 million. Gets less per head subvention than Northern Ireland (bags the most) followed by England and Scotland in that order
Dont forget that whoever you are. Bit of a dog in the manger attitude.
@Patrick O Connell: Maybe SF will, maybe they won’t. But we do know the other crowd haven’t.
@David Glynn: Chihuahua is absolutely right and you know that because I told you that fact more than once.The North used all 13 Catergories of ETHOS typology re homelessness,here Government only uses 3 Catergories of ETHOS typology.The UK uses more than 3 Catergories of ETHOS too!
Here there were 1m people on combined hospital waiting lists and over 115367 patients on trolleys last year.
@Patrick O Connell: SF has promised to cure the cronavirus and get apple to pay for it.
@Nuala Mc Namara: Bull. Everything is Nirvana up north.
Over 700, 000 waiting for specialist medical treatment . No, they are not real patients. We don’t count that way.
Always an excuse.
Even if we used all 12 categories in the Sth of Ethos typology measurements, which differs across the EU, it would be around the 18,000 mark .Now compare that with Northern Ireland population wise. Republic 4.8 million and 1.8 million in the North .
Using the same metrics population wise , homelessness in the North would be almost 3 times, north of 30,000.
Lets now move on on how you measure population Blah Blah.Snooze zzz.
Like the Risen another grouping of SF propagandists. No such person as Angela.
@John Gill: probably, and there will unfortunately be many who would believe the manipulation if it was the case. Please can we have another 5 years of FFG running the country, how else would we get such amazing news almost weekly?
@David Glynn: I gave the facts to you more than once,you haven’t a clue!By the way theres 13 Categories of ETHOS typology & unlike most European countries, Ireland just uses 3 Categories!
Just adding in 1 more Category eg women and children in Safe refuges the ‘official ‘homeless figures would be near 16,500 but theres 9 more Categories of ETHOS typology as well!
Since I’ve been commenting here since 2014 and highlighting homeless crisis was developing into National emergency, I haven’t seen you show similar concerns in all that time.My concerns over the ongoing National emergencies in homelessness, housing and health was why I voted the way I did.
Why am I not surprised, the figure only went down due to the xmas period and the making available extra beds… also the fact that a forthcoming election FG decided to do a bit….
@Paul O’Sullivan: extra beds doesn’t change the number of homeless people, it’s whether the number registered exceeds the number provided with accommodation. It could be prone provided with accommodation over Xmas decided to our themselves back on the list, who knows?, there is no breakdown.
Love how the journal use a picture of tents to represent the homeless talked about in this article! There are 10 people listed as living in *other Accommodation Type .As opposed to TEA,PEA or STA(look it up yourselves) They could be tent dwellers or they could be people living with friends or relatives, who knows, but the tents do not represent homelessness and using them is over dramatisation.
@Marie Broomfield: yeh why dramatise something so trivial. It would be horrible for example if people got angry and tried to waste energy protesting etc for people to have their own homes. Such bad journalism.
@Marie Broomfield: Don’t be so ridiculous as if anyone would choose to live in a tent in this weather. There’s lots of people living in tents all over the country! They have no choice.
@deisecelt: a lie is a lie. The end do NOT justify the means
@Marie Broomfield: completely agree.. homeless in this scenario is people not able or not willing to provide their own accommodation. It is terrible that some many children are listed here but is the only thing to be done to build and give these people houses? I have bought and pay for my own house but in my small estate there are 2 houses leased by the council.. it creates resentment from people who are on a grand a month mortgages ..
@Jon Shannow: Resentment is bad for the soul, letting your vengeful thoughts hijack your mind won’t make you happy.
@Frank Cauldhame: ha.. to be honest my mortgage is almost done and I am lucky as I bought in cheaper times.. but people here paid twice what I have..
@Colette Kearns: The only thing that’s ridiculous is using images of pitched tents to represent the homeless in Ireland. You do realise homelessness does not mean you have to be living on the streets don’t you! Or living in tents! There you go now, there’s a job for you, go around and count all the people living in tents full time and bring that to your local government representative to highlight the inaccuracy of homelessness figures!
fGFF caused all this and more
This is the number in emergency accommodation, not the number of homeless people.
Micheall Martin has a plan……
@Brian Madden: so has every other party!
Minister Murphy caught telling lies leading into the GE
Amazing that most of the defence from the FFG bots here is to list all the other countries homeless figures…… That somehow makes it OK.
@Fr. Fintan Stack: you have 4 followers and follow no one, are you part of the provisional or the real SF bot team?
@Carpentoza: Oh, and that’s you other defence, anyone who doesn’t agree with your FFG agenda is a provo.
Wasn’t the fall in the last figures – announced during election week – overstated?
A housing agency questioned the figures and the error was realised and corrected but no official statement issued.
Only one media outlet reported on it.
@Charles Alexander: Yes,I had looked at December’s homeless figures and noticed that the figures for homeless in TEA accommodation type which is temporary emergency accommodation with NO (or minimal) support had gone from 64 in Dublin in November 2019 to shocking 2250 in December 2019 only a month later!The total for TEA accommodation in November 2019 nationwide went from 145 to shocking 2325 in December 2019!
@Nuala Mc Namara: Note:the percentage increase in homeless in TEA accommodation in Dublin supposedly went up by 3415.6% from Nov’19-Dec’19& the percentage of increase in homeless in TEA accommodation nationwide supposedly went up by 1503.4% from Nov’19-Dec’19!
Homeless figures up again while the muppets in FF/FG play silly buggers and will not try form a government with SF and help solve the problem.
Disgusting!
@Pád: Look up the Journal factcheck with 12, 518 homeless up North with a population of 1.88 million .
Then Google Wales and Scotland on homeless numbers there . Both with devolved powers and Parliaments. Both get less per head of population subvention than Northern Ireland. Both have a lot less homeless.
Scotland has just under 30,000 assessed as homeless with a population of 5.43 million .Wales has 10,000 with a population of 3.2 million.
Then do the maths and tell me you want the Shinners to tackle the problem here given that appalling record where the have been in power for the last 20 years apart from walkouts.
Facts my boy .Facts.
@David Glynn: pointless engaging with the SF bots David I absolutely agree with you this is an EU wide issue and we are not bad at all tbh. Germany has 1mill!
@Carpentoza: It just amuses me to debunk their spiel. And we need to counter their propaganda. In Belfast recently on the Shinner black cab tour. Asked driver , ex IRA con, about their strong support for Catelonia. He was stumped when I compared his struggle for a united Ireland with his opposition to a United Spain.
France has 140,000 homelesswith 30,000 of that number children. You are right that its a huge problem across the EU and needs to be tackled.
But I would be genuinely fearful of SF if they got into power. They practice politics with a cult like zeal. And I would be left of centre politically.
@Carpentoza: Ireland’s homelessness figures can’t be compared to most other European countries as they use more than 3Catergories of ETHOS typology re homelessness, Ireland only uses 3 Catergories!
@David Glynn: Im not concerned about other countries just the one I live in.
So Maybe if FF/FG thought the same there would be a lot less homeless.
Still bickering over power. You are obviously a FG/FF troll that doesn’t care either!
@Pád: can’t engage in reasoned debate so resort to name calling. Put the toys back in your pram and ask the other SF team for a huge there in HQ
@Carpentoza: I only engage in a debate with people that have an open mind!
All you want to do is keep the status quo with FG/ FF.
so there’s no point in even having a conversation with you.
If you’re homeless in Ireland it’s very, very easy to get put up in a D4 five star hotel indefinitely, I met dozens of them over Christmas, not one of them had spent a night on the streets.
The people on the streets are generally addicts and / or people with mental health issues, the people on the streets are an indication of our failed health system, the people in plush hotels are a sign of failed government policy, but make no mistake, there is not one person sleeping rough in Ireland who hasn’t been offered hotel accommodation. Not one.
@Sean Fahey: people are offered hostels, sharing rooms with addicts, not enough clean hostel to go around. Too much money spent on hotels instead of building social, affordable rent and affordable houses at 200000 to buy
Half a million kidults still live with parents. Hope they don’t get crazy ideas such as trying to find a new place to live. # Think of a number ; presented by Murfs
@Kieran Daly: It’s not the worst idea if you’re single. I have a 20 year old at home and he contributes by cooking twice a week. It really lightens the load for us. Cooking for two is almost a waste of time.
@SC: The day a person begins to become an adult is the day they leave their parents home.
FFG keeping the recovery goin for the vulture funds
One more election and it will be totally eradicated.
The journal at it again. This is the number of people living in hotels, not in tents.. I bet they’re isn’t 30 people in Ireland living in tents.
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