Leading homeless campaigner, Fr Peter McVerry, has said the government’s housing policy is failing and should be torn up.

Latest: The President of the St Vincent de Paul has described any attempts to normalise homelessness as 'insulting'.

Campaigners are urging the people of Ireland to put pressure on the Government to address the issue of homelessness.

Keeping the universal social charge could eliminate homelessness within five years, a leading campaigner has claimed.

The minister responsible for the homelessness problem has revealed he has not yet met one of the country's leading campaigners in the area.

Campaigner Fr Peter McVerry says the Department of Social Protection is creating homelessness by not increasing rent allowance rates.