Homeless will feel pain of ‘savage’ cuts

THE planned “savage” cuts under yesterday’s budget will cause a severe deepening of the homeless problem across the country and, furthermore, puts in doubt the future viability of the Governments own homeless strategy.

The warnings came yesterday from a leading charity for homeless, Focus Ireland.

The budget saw a massive €300m cut to social housing provision next year and €400m less for HSE bodies that fund and service, among others, the homeless.