Homelessness - Poverty put on the back-burner

HARD questions posed

Many share his failure to understand why the Government is pouring money into things like the spike in Dublin’s O’Connell Street when more than 5,000 people are homeless around the country.

They also share his sense of amazement at so much public money being spent on such projects when there is a desperate need for investment in housing, health and education. Conor Hickey’s sense of outrage is fully justified when on any given night 300 down-and-outs are sleeping rough on the streets of Dublin. In Cork, 13 homeless people died last year.