Figures ‘omit’ 100 homeless people

ABOUT 100 people sleeping rough may not be accounted for in government statistics because of a “new way of counting people”.

Sources within the homeless services say that because of health and safety issues, workers are not allowed to go down alleyways, or into parks, to count how many people are sleeping rough.

According to volunteers who operate a soup run, there are as many as 100 rough sleepers in Dublin on a given night who are not included in official statistics.