The continuing rise in the number of homeless people is “unbelievably frustrating”, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said on Thursday. This compares with the week ending on January 28th, when there were 9,104 people homeless, including 3,267 children in 1,517 families. This represents a 32 per increase in overall homelessness, a 40 per cent increase in family homelessness, and a 47 per cent increase in the number of homeless children. Mr Coveney earlier disputed figures from Fianna Fail’s Seán Fleming about how the new rebuilding home loan scheme was working. Mr Coveney said there were no figures available yet for the home loan scheme but Mr Fleming said the scheme “has got off to a bad start”.

Source: The Irish Times March 29, 2018 11:16 UTC