Councillor condemns 'big cash cow' as 19 Dublin hotels each paid more than €1m to accommodate homeless

Nineteen hotels in Dublin each received payments in excess of €1m last year to provide emergency accommodation for the homeless.

One hotel received payments of between €4m and €5m, according to new figures provided by the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive (DRHE) which confirmed that the spend on providing temporary and emergency accommodation for the homeless soared by 19% to €170m in 2019.