Response to homeless crisis ‘a widespread failure’

Ireland’s response to the homeless crisis has been labelled "a widespread failure" by Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.

Calling for greater policy coherence, Dr Martin said homelessness was a sort of thermometer of the overall social climate.

“If that is the case, the current crisis of homelessness in Ireland is, in fact, an indication of a more widespread failure of social policy,” he said yesterday.