Demand for housing ‘to get worse before it gets better’

Demand for housing will get even worse before it gets better the Housing Minister has admitted.

Eoghan Murphy has also stressed the need for a more co-ordinated approach from charities who work in the homeless sector.

The warning comes after the director of the Dublin Region Homeless Executive, Eileen Gleeson, suggested that there are too many homeless groups and volunteers who give out food and sleeping bags to people sleeping rough are “not helpful”.