System is failing thousands

It is little comfort for Health Minister Micheál Martin to say that the death of an evicted man in freezing weather outside his own flat represented “a failure of the system.”

The ubiquitous system is failing too many thousands of unfortunate people on the margins in this country.

Noel Cahill was an alcoholic who was evicted by Dublin City Council, for, among other things, allowing anti-social behaviour by youths in the flat.