THIS year’s budget for accommodation and other services for the homeless will remain at the 2004 allocation of €51 million.

ONE-IN-FIVE Traveller families is without proper accommodation five years after the launch of a dedicated housing programme, it was claimed yesterday.

THERE are at least €460 million worth of hospital facilities lying idle across the country because the Government has failed to provide funding to open them.

HOMELESS people spend up to a year-and-a-half in B&B accommodation, compared with just 20 days 10 years ago, Focus Ireland has claimed.

The Government has launched a scheme to house elderly emigrants who want to return to Ireland after living abroad for decades.

The Government tonight launched a plan to make more use of room at the top.