{"id":1394,"date":"2021-01-18T11:18:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T11:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/rte-investigates-confirms-that-homeless-people-are-refused-access-to-emergency-beds\/"},"modified":"2021-01-18T11:18:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T11:18:21","slug":"rte-investigates-confirms-that-homeless-people-are-refused-access-to-emergency-beds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/rte-investigates-confirms-that-homeless-people-are-refused-access-to-emergency-beds\/","title":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 Investigates confirms that homeless people are refused access to emergency beds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking ahead of tonight\u2019s RT\u00c9 Investigates programme on the lived experience of rough sleepers in Ireland, Social Democrats spokesperson for Housing, Cian O\u2019Callaghan TD, commented:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResearch carried out by RT\u00c9 Investigates for the \u2018Stuck in the Rough\u2019 documentary found that 27% of the people sleeping rough said that they were turned away from an emergency hostel bed at different times since the pandemic began last year. This corresponds with what organisations working with homeless people on the ground have been saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere must be no more excuses from Government \u2013 it is utterly unacceptable that people are sleeping rough in freezing conditions while emergency beds lie empty. This would be unacceptable at any time but is exceptionally cruel during a public health emergency and pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve raised this maltreatment of homeless people in the D\u00e1il with both the Taoiseach and the Minister for Housing on several occasions. Their response has been weak, ineffective and insufficient. The Minister for Housing must write to all local authorities instructing them not to use local connection criteria to refuse people who are sleeping rough access to emergency beds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>January 18, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking ahead of tonight\u2019s RT\u00c9 Investigates programme on the lived experience of rough sleepers in Ireland, Social Democrats spokesperson for Housing, Cian O\u2019Callaghan TD, commented: \u201cResearch carried out by RT\u00c9 Investigates for the \u2018Stuck in the Rough\u2019 documentary found that 27% of the people sleeping rough said that they were turned away from an emergency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cian-ocallaghan","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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