Rent pressure zones to be strengthened - Murphy

Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy has said the increase in homeless numbers is very disappointing and a number of people are at "the very blunt end of the housing difficulties".Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, the minister said that more homes were built last year than any previous year in a decade, and that around 1,700 new homes were built in Dublin last year.

Labour's housing spokesperson Jan O'Sullivan said the Government needs to admit that Rebuilding Ireland is failing and nothing will change until this happens.Ms O'Sullivan called on the Government to take action to ensure people can stay in their homes as well as meeting targets to build social and affordable housing.

Meanwhile, Fr Peter McVerry has said he believes the actual number of homeless people is closer to 15,000. Mr Doherty said the Minister for Housing described the latest figures as "disappointing" but he said they were a "national scandal". Speaking during Leaders' Questions, he said that since Rebuilding Ireland was published, the number of adults in emergency accommodation was up 117% and the number of children in emergency accommodation was up 247%.

He said they were trying to fix a fundamentally broken housing market that collapsed during the banking crisis. Opening the debate, Mr Ó Broin said that "in 2011 when Fine Gael took office there were 641 children in emergency accommodation according to the Central Statistics Office. Yesterday's homeless figures said there were 3,784 children officially homeless in February. That is an increase of 490%."

Since 2017 more than 9,000 rental properties have been lost and he accused Fine Gael of sitting on its hands.

See the results of Rent Pressure promoted by Eoghan Murphy: In Suicides In Psychiatric Wards In TB referrals In the stolen childhoods But all this is outweighed by the financial support to FG of those who bankrupted this nation for the next 100 years.

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