Sinn Féin council group leader and general election candidate Conor D. McGuinness has said that only Sinn Féin’s alternative housing plan will solve Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael’s homeless crisis.
The West Waterford representative was commenting as the latest Department of Housing’s homelessness report for July shows record numbers of people in emergency accommodation.
McGuinness said:
“The July homeless report from the Department of Housing recorded 14,429 people, including 4,401 children in emergency accommodation last month. In the South East there 298 adults and 111 children are currently in council-managed emergency accommodation. Once again, another grim homelessness record has been reached under Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.
“It is important to point out that these figures, bad as they are, do not include those in other types of emergency accommodation, nor indeed the many thousands of families and individuals experiencing hidden homelessness across the state.
“It is quite clear at this stage that the government’s housing plan is not working. In fact it is making things worse. More adults, children, families, single people and pensioners are homelessness today than when this government took office four years ago.
“Only a change of government and Sinn Féin’s alternative housing plan will address Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael’s homeless crisis.
“This week Sinn Féin will launch our comprehensive, detailed and fully costed alternative housing plan. It will set out how to end long term homelessness by 2030.
“This can be achieved, but only with a Sinn Féin-led government.”
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Conor D. McGuinness TD 