An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Seanad Éireann — 2024-09-24
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Paul Gavan (SF), Labour Panel

On this first day back, I will raise the issues of housing and health, as I have on each occasion we have come back. I raise the issue of housing because the housing crisis continues to worsen. The figures and the record of the Government are particularly stark. When it took office, there was 231 homeless adults and 62 homeless children in Limerick, including 41 families. Four years later, the Government has now doubled the number of homeless adults in Limerick to 442. It has tripled the number of homeless children to 191 and almost tripled the number of homeless families to 110. Those are the cold facts. We see it every day in our clinics as the housing crisis gets worse and worse and children are left to fester in hotels and hostels.

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Sitting date: 2024-09-24