Extra emergency beds have been rolled out for rough sleepers as temperatures begin to plummet, the Housing Minister has confirmed.

The Government has come under renewed pressure to bring in radical measures to tackle the housing crisis after the number of homeless burst past the 8,000 mark in July.

The Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy has ruled out creating another Irish Water type body to solve the country's housing crisis.

A homeless family of seven living mostly in one hotel bedroom are to sue the Minister for Housing as well as a local authority to decide if they are entitled to a particular standard of accommodation.

The Housing Minister Simon Coveney is denying that two new emergency hostels are being provided for Dublin as a result of the Home Sweet Home Campaign.

The first-time buyers' grant is set to return in the Budget in the form of a tax rebate.

Caretaker Labour minister Alan Kelly has claimed the Constitution “repeatedly blocked” him from implementing solutions to the housing and homelessness crisis.

The Coalition has been urged to address Ireland’s spiraling rent prices as part of any measures to tackle homelessness, after claims the issue has helped force thousands of people into emergency accommodation or onto the streets.

The Government is to introduce measures to crack down on neighbours from hell and penalise landlords who fail to act.

Developers should be forced to pay more towards the cost of local amenities, it was claimed today.