Housing Minister says 'no evidence' people are faking homelessness

Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy has disagreed with a claim by the outgoing chair of the Government Housing Agency, Conor Skehan, that some people are pretending to be homeless to skip housing queues.

Yesterday, the minister said he has “no evidence” to support the allegation.

Mr Skehan said that while the homelessness crisis was severe, some families were trying to “game the system” by wrongly registering as homeless to jump social-housing queues.