Kenny: ‘Tea and sympathy takes nobody off the streets’

Enda Kenny has said his experience of meeting and listening to rough sleepers on Dublin’s streets was a "revelation", but that tea and sympathy will not solve the homeless crisis.

Mr Kenny spent more than three hours on Dublin’s streets on Thursday night speaking to rough sleepers and helping a charity working with the homeless.

Giving out soup and emergency supplies alongside volunteers with the Inner City Helping Homeless, he walked the streets and listened to the plight of men and women sleeping in doorways and laneways.