After housing and homelessness emergencies are sorted we can lurch on to the next crisis

The government ignore everything except the latest crisis and then reach for a quick-fix solution, writes Michael Clifford

THAT’S that crisis sorted so. Now that the housing and homeless emergency has been deal with, we can all pack up and move on to the next crisis. Maybe the depths of winter will throw up something in health, which can generate screaming headlines, tortured debate, political manoeuvring and finally a solution. Crisis, what crisis? Once more some figures within Government will don their superhero capes and come to the rescue.

The housing package announced last week will have taken some of the heat out of what is a genuine humanitarian crisis. Up to 70 families were becoming homeless every month, mainly but not exclusively in the Dublin area. Nearly all of these cases arose because of inability to pay rents in the private rental sector.