Homeless crisis leads to war of words in Dail

The Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald has described as 'unacceptable' the fact that homeless families were referred to Garda stations and had to sleep in parks this week due to a lack of emergency beds.

Her comments came as the Government and Fianna Fáil united this lunchtime to vote down a bill put forward by Solidarity-People Before Profit calling for emergency legislation to tackle the homeless crisis.