Five people entering homelessness for every one person who exits, committee told

Dermot Kavanagh from Cork Simon told the committee he was seeing a 'growing number of working homeless' in the city and county. He said many people are working, but this 'does not offer a route out of homelessness'. File picture: Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie

Five people are entering homelessness for every one person who exits, an Oireachtas committee has been told.

The backlog of exits from the emergency accommodation system was pinpointed as a major reason homelessness has reached record levels by representatives of homelessness agencies and charities at the Oireachtas housing committee on Tuesday.