87% increase in the number of homeless children (Video)

In Ireland in 2015, not one child should be homeless – yet one homeless group is working with 87% more homeless children than last year. Another organisation tells me that 70-plus children will become homeless every month. I was at the lone parent family protest, they make up 60% of the families in emergency accommodation. A further 30,000 one-parent households will be affected by one-parent family payment reform. Currently there are 138,000 children living in consistent poverty. There is also a fear that children will be joining the numbers of rough sleepers. Some of the boarded up voids are being renovated finally but there is a complete lack of urgency. On Thursday I once again called on the Government, who is still blaming the previous Government, to make homelessness an urgency. There is no doubt that there has been preferential treatment for the privileged few while others are left in misery with a Government who is well aware of this and doing nothing short term…

On Thursday I asked the Tánaiste once again; where is the urgency to address this crisis?