The head of a Capuchin Day Centre, which feeds hundreds of homeless people every day, has appealed to the Government to do something about the crisis — not just talk about it.

The Taoiseach was talking over the weekend about the Government keeping its "compass point fixed on 2016", and then letting the people give their verdict at the polls.

MORE than 700 people queued outside a Dublin friary yesterday for free food parcels — double the numbers the centre normally feeds.