In letters to the chief executives of the four Dublin local authorities, Mr Murphy set out a series of targets for emergency accommodation provision by the end of the year. He appealed to Mr Murphy to work with the councils rather than “slagging them off”. Chairman of Dublin City Council’s housing committee Cllr Daithí Doolan (Sinn Féin) said the department had “no sense of the crisis in the city”. In tweets over the weekend, chief executive of Fingal County Council Paul Reid said that the council was “relentlessly committed to housing”. Will deliver ahead of target for 2018 also.”The crisis is exerting growing political pressure on the Government and, especially, on Mr Murphy.

Source: The Irish Times September 10, 2018 00:00 UTC