Cabinet Committees
Dail Éireann — 2023-06-14
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Cian O'Callaghan (SD), Dublin Bay North

Regarding the Cabinet committee on housing, I ask the Taoiseach about the numbers of people who are sleeping rough. An article written by Laoise Neylon in the Dublin Inquirer stated that last November 180 people were counted as sleeping rough in Dublin by the Dublin Simon Community outreach team. Yet despite this, the official figure of the number of people sleeping rough published by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive Dublin, DRHE, was just 91. How is it possible that half of the people who were counted as sleeping rough were not included in the official figures published? Does the Taoiseach agree that everyone who was counted as sleeping rough should be included in the official figures? Will he contact the DRHE and ask it to stop excluding people who are sleeping rough from the official figures?

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Sitting date: 2023-06-14