A housing agency has rejected claims it has stopped elderly residents in a housing scheme from putting double beds in their newly refurbished flats for religious or moral reasons.

A leading homelessness campaigner has claimed, despite a national outcry over the death of a man outside the Dáil at Christmas, entire families are facing life on the streets for the first time “since the Famine”.

A dispute over the opening of a multi-million euro housing scheme for older people in Dublin has been resolved.