Merchant Quay report a snapshot of new reality in many communities \u2013 Crowe<\/p>\n
Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has said the annual report released today by Merchant Quay Ireland provides a snapshot of what is becoming the new reality for many people across the Country.<\/p>\n
Responding to the report Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said;<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Merchant Quay Ireland (MQI) annual report released today\u00a0 is a snapshot of what is happening in communities and becoming the new reality for many people across the Country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe group provided over 73,000 meals to the homeless highlighting the growing difficulties facing groups involved in outreach programmes for the growing number of\u00a0 people looking for practical support and help in Ireland.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe charity also reports that 10 new people are joining needle exchange programmes in Dublin every week and the demand for access to GP services has risen by a whopping 21%.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir primary healthcare service made over 3,300 individual interventions from basic wound care to chronic illness treatment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese figures reflect the harsh physical realities of being homeless and living on the streets.<\/p>\n
\u201cMerchant Quay figures follow on from the \u2018Roof Over Our Heads Report\u2019 which detailed, using CSO figures, that over 5,000 people are homeless. This is occurring while there are 230,000 vacant homes across the State and 16,321 vacant apartments in Dublin alone. 100,000 people are on various local authorities housing waiting lists.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Government needs to urgently act on these growing societal problems. The cabinet needs to improve housing schemes for those on waiting lists and homeless people. It also must ensure that people on low income, who are feeling the worst effects of economic austerity, are provided with an adequate supply of suitable housing in order to prevent a rise in homelessness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Merchant Quay report a snapshot of new reality in many communities \u2013 Crowe Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has said the annual report released today by Merchant Quay Ireland provides a snapshot of what is becoming the new reality for many people across the Country. Responding to the report Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said; \u201cThe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}