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”.

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.