A national shame: Another Christmas for thousands in emergency accommodation  

This year, more than 16,700 people will spend their Christmas in emergency accommodation, many of them children who have never lived in their own home

Dublin has a total of nearly 12,000 people using different forms of private emergency accommodation. This is part of the special report published in the 'Irish Examiner' in print and online on Monday, December 22. 

Thousands of people and families will spend this Christmas living in hotels and B&Bs across Ireland.

The same as last year. And the year before that. And the year before that. And much of the decade before that.