{"id":5218,"date":"2024-01-08T15:19:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T15:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=5218"},"modified":"2024-01-08T15:19:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T15:19:31","slug":"record-homelessness-another-government-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/record-homelessness-another-government-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Record homelessness \u2018another Government failure\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that, so long as Fine Gael and Fianna F\u00e1il remain in government, homelessness will continue to rise and records will continue to be broken. <br \/><br \/>Teachta Crowe said:<br \/><br \/>\u201cThe November homeless report from the Department of Housing shows yet another rise in all categories of homelessness on the previous month.<br \/><br \/>\u201cIn the run up to Christmas, there were 13,514 people, including 4,105 children and 193 senior citizens, in Department of Housing funded emergency accommodation.<br \/><br \/>\u201cOnce again, this Government has broken all records for officially recognised homelessness.<br \/><br \/>\u201cOver Christmas, the Minister for Housing Darragh O\u2019Brien had the nerve to say that any \u2018fair-minded\u2019 person looking at the evidence would conclude that the Government\u2019s housing plan is working.<br \/><br \/>\u201cAt this point, the Government are just trying to play the Irish people for fools. Their housing plan is not working and no amount of time is going to change that. <br \/><br \/>\u201cAs long as Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael are in office, the worse the housing and homelessness crisis will get and records will continue to be broken month on month. <br \/><br \/>\u201cOnly with a change of Government and a change of housing plan, with a real focus on ending homelessness, can we start to undo the damage of decades of bad Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael housing policy.\u201d ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that, so long as Fine Gael and Fianna F\u00e1il remain in government, homelessness will continue to rise and records will continue to be broken. Teachta Crowe said: \u201cThe November homeless report from the Department of Housing shows yet another rise in all categories of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218","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=5218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5219,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions\/5219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}