Expert rejects claims of homelessness crisis

Claims that homelessness is at crisis point have been rejected by an expert in the field.

Eoin O’Sullivan of Trinity College Dublin, who has written extensively on the subject, said the target of caring for all homeless people by 2016 was achievable.

One step he said would help tackle the problem is better use of government money currently being spent by different State agencies. He said there was a perception that homelessness was an unmanageable crisis, but this was not the case.