HSE accused of hampering the war on homelessness

HOMELESSNESS campaigners have accused the Health Service Executive of standing in the way of efforts to end rough sleeping by the end of the decade.

Yesterday, the Simon Community and the Peter McVerry Trust complained the HSE had frozen funding to the sector at 2007 levels.

They also said that, by deciding not to fund new projects, the HSE was failing to fulfil its obligations under a two-year-old strategy to end homelessness — the plan is called Key to the Door.