TAOISEACH REFUSES TO PROVIDE TIMELINE FOR WHEN HOMELESS CRISIS WILL END

Thousands will spend Christmas in emergency accommodation

As thousands of children prepare to spend Christmas Eve in emergency accommodation the Taoiseach has refused to provide a timeline for when the homelessness crisis will end. 

This time last year then-Housing Minister Simon Coveney said all families would be out of hotels and B&Bs by July. 

That didn’t happen and Leo Varadkar says it’s a tough issue to address. 

He refused to be drawn into providing a timeline for those families as to when they can exit emergency accommodation in 2018.