Homeless woman asks Minister for rights to have a visitor in emergency accommodation

"I am only looking to have the one visitor over. I am not looking for much as we are in emergency accommodation so long now I feel this is unfair. I am not on drugs, I do not cause any anti-social behaviour, I am not a murderer, I am not a drug dealer or a criminal."

The words of a woman in correspondence with Minister for Housing, Eoghan Murphy, raising one issue that is sometimes overlooked in the current homelessness crisis - the absence of normal, everyday visit.