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Numbers of People Sleeping Rough in Dublin City Remain at High Levels
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Monday March 22, 2004 17:05 by Roughan Mac Namara - Focus Ireland rmcnamara at focusireland dot ie 9-12 High Street, Dublin 01 8815 900
Numbers of people sleeping rough in Dublin city centre remain at record high levels, according to a new survey conducted by homeless organisations. Two hundred and thirty seven (237) people sleep rough in Dublin on any given night. The survey co-ordinated by the Homeless Agency was carried out by Focus Ireland, Dublin Simon Community, Merchant’s Quay Ireland along with Dublin City Council and other homeless services. Commenting on the results of the survey Declan Jones, Chief Executive of Focus Ireland said: “These figures show the number of people sleeping rough in Dublin has remained more or less static in recent years despite a Government strategy to specifically target this problem.” |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6I note the report says that the numbers sleeping out have been static in "recent years". What does that mean? Is there any decrease in homelessness correlated with the "booming" economy?
Irish Catholic Organisations and others are not doing enough for these poor people that sleep on our streets in Ireland. Money collected should be spent on housing for these people.
The Religiours Orders in Ireland could provide housing and shelter in many of their religious houses in Ireland.
cos people not sure what to do to help in the long or short term
see the reports of affordable housing in cork... no ones seems to want to move into corpo estates.... for fear of the neighbours :(
Whats Sister Stan doing in such a small centre in Temple Bar. The money thats collected for her organization Focus Ireland could build another Croke Park for the homeless in Dublin alone.
If Irelands homeless were to take Nigerian citizenship, and then apply for asylum they woulld no longer be homeless. Could get Michael D Higgins to do a mercy dash to Lagos for passports.
237 people sleeping rough in dublin. A city of one million. now thats .000237% of the cities population. This in all fairness can hardly be described as a crisis. When you take into consideration that a large proportion of these people are alcoholics/addicts who refuse nightly accomodation offered by the Night Bus because the hostels are alcohol free then you have to conclude that it is not nearly as grave a problem as the thousands of families who have homes and are trying to raise families on the minimum wage.
It is also worth noting in reply to some of the comments re religious orders that most of the homeless accomodation in Dublin is provided either directly or indirectly by religious organisations eg Dublin diocese, Franciscans, De Paul , Focus, Salvation Army, Arrupe Society.