{"id":605,"date":"2013-02-22T13:33:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T13:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-welcomes-new-timescale-set-for-homeless\/"},"modified":"2013-02-22T13:33:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T13:33:46","slug":"crowe-welcomes-new-timescale-set-for-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-welcomes-new-timescale-set-for-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe welcomes new timescale set for homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crowe\u00a0welcomes\u00a0new timescale set\u00a0for homeless<\/h2>\n

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Sinn F\u00e9in\u00a0representative Se\u00e1n Crowe TD\u00a0has welcomed the setting by the Minister for Housing of a\u00a0new timescale\u00a0to end long term homelessness and rough sleeping. He made his comments following the announcement by Jan O’Sullivan that\u00a0a new\u00a0deadline would be reset to 2016 given the failure to live up to a previous commitments for 2010.<\/p>\n

Deputy Sean Crowe said;<\/p>\n

\u201cA \u00a0target originally set\u00a0back in \u00a02010 was believed by many to be \u00a0achievable and many\u00a0positive steps were taken but sadly\u00a0the political will was not there in\u00a0government at that time\u00a0to see through such an ambitious\u00a0project. Homeless groups like Focus Ireland in 2011 then\u00a0called for the date to be reset to 2013. The current\u00a0government has now decided on 2016 as the date. This\u00a0 could have been\u00a0brought \u00a0a lot closer if the\u00a0proper focus was given to housing but I welcome this commitment to set a new deadline.<\/p>\n

\u201cFocus Ireland believes from its own research that there are roughly 5000 homeless people\u00a0across the\u00a0state.<\/div>\n
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“Many of these homeless\u00a0are under 18.<\/div>\n
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\u201cPeople who experience homelessness are more likely to have physical or mental health difficulties and many were formerly in care.<\/div>\n
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“On any given night in the Dublin city area, there could be 90 people sleeping rough in doorway, parks, derelict sites and abandoned cars. Life expectancy, as a result of the extreme cold, malnutrition and crime is much lower for homeless people than it is for the general population. People sleeping rough are only the tip of the homeless iceberg however. The less obvious side of homelessness is made up of those who live in hostels, refuges, B&B\u2019s shelters or emergency accommodation. This \u2018hidden homeless\u2019 population is sadly 20 times the number of people sleeping rough.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“All are in this\u00a0 hopeless situation because of a lack of action when it comes to\u00a0appropriate accommodation to meet their needs.A large proportion\u00a0\u00a0are vulnerable \u00a0victims and many more are being made even more vulnerable because the of a failure by our society to respond their basic needs.<\/div>\n

\u201cMuch hard\u00a0work still needs\u00a0to be done in order to end homelessness and the government will need to make\u00a0strategic\u00a0decisions to provide housing which is tailored to suit the varied needs of people coming out of homelessness. We know from the governments own figures that\u00a0funding has been cut for homelessness services and emergency accommodation is at breaking point with organisations working with the homeless operating now\u00a0at absolute capacity. This situation cannot\u00a0be allowed to\u00a0continue.<\/p>\n

\u201cA new deadline is a\u00a0positive step forward\u00a0but\u00a0the funding of services for homeless people combined with\u00a0the provision of permanent housing is what will end homeless crisis.\u00a0This can be achieved by government in co-operation with\u00a0the voluntary housing agencies\u00a0if\u00a0we collectively as a society\u00a0commit ourselves to this new achievable deadline.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crowe\u00a0welcomes\u00a0new timescale set\u00a0for homeless \u00a0 Sinn F\u00e9in\u00a0representative Se\u00e1n Crowe TD\u00a0has welcomed the setting by the Minister for Housing of a\u00a0new timescale\u00a0to end long term homelessness and rough sleeping. He made his comments following the announcement by Jan O’Sullivan that\u00a0a new\u00a0deadline would be reset to 2016 given the failure to live up to a previous commitments […]<\/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-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}