Tánaiste urged to withdraw 'dishonest and dangerous' homelessness comments

Simon Harris suggested that a 'significant number' of people in emergency accommodation 'don’t have a housing right in Ireland'

Tánaiste Simon Harris. Picture: Sam Boal/Collins

Tánaiste Simon Harris has been urged to withdraw comments about immigration and homelessness, which have been branded “dishonest and dangerous”.

Sinn Féin’s housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin accused the Fine Gael leader of a “new low” by “conflating the issues of homelessness and immigration”.