Housing Crisis: Fury as families sleep in Garda stations

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald accepted that the referring of 12 homeless families to Garda stations on Tuesday night was “completely unacceptable”.

Housing Crisis: Fury as families sleep in Garda stations

Ms Fitzgerald came under fire from across the Dáil floor during leaders’ questions over the situation which resulted from a lack of emergency hotel accommodation for the families, some of whom were forced to sleep rough as a result.

Fianna Fáil’s Barry Cowen said that promises made by Taoiseach Enda Kenny two years ago that no family would be left stranded by local authorities have been broken.

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