{"id":1423,"date":"2021-01-28T17:43:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T17:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/minister-in-denial-and-avoiding-any-responsibility-for-homelessness\/"},"modified":"2021-01-28T17:43:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T17:43:34","slug":"minister-in-denial-and-avoiding-any-responsibility-for-homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/minister-in-denial-and-avoiding-any-responsibility-for-homelessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister in denial and avoiding any responsibility for homelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social Democrats TD Cian O\u2019Callaghan has expressed frustration after the Minister for Housing was again unable to provide clear answers as to why homeless people are still being turned away from emergency accommodation.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after tackling Minister O\u2019Brien on the issue in the D\u00e1il today, Deputy O\u2019Callaghan, who is the party\u2019s Housing spokesperson, commented:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Minister O&#8217;Brien has previously insisted that homeless people were not being turned away from emergency accommodation. That is clearly not the case, as evidenced by the recent \u2018RT\u00c9 Investigates\u2019 programme which confirmed what homeless organisations have been saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Minister gave no real answers in the D\u00e1il today as to why some of our most vulnerable people are not being provided with emergency beds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clearly, what we have here is a Minister in denial. He said he would end the practice of people being turned away from emergency accommodation on the grounds of not having a connection to a local area. He was asked to come clean and admit that people are still being turned away, and he wouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Minister is avoiding any responsibility for dealing with homelessness. He has given answers which suggest he will take action, but then he doesn&#8217;t follow through. What we have here is a Housing Minister who is better at soundbites than he is at solutions and he seems to be showing very little interest in tackling the homelessness crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>January 28, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Democrats TD Cian O\u2019Callaghan has expressed frustration after the Minister for Housing was again unable to provide clear answers as to why homeless people are still being turned away from emergency accommodation. Speaking after tackling Minister O\u2019Brien on the issue in the D\u00e1il today, Deputy O\u2019Callaghan, who is the party\u2019s Housing spokesperson, commented: &#8220;Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1423","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 v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Minister in denial and avoiding any responsibility for homelessness - Social Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/minister-in-denial-and-avoiding-any-responsibility-for-homelessness\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ga_IE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Minister in denial and avoiding any responsibility for homelessness - Social Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Social Democrats TD Cian O\u2019Callaghan has expressed frustration after the Minister for Housing was again unable to provide clear answers as to why homeless people are still being turned away from emergency accommodation. 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