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A TOTAL of $220 million is rather a lot to pay for a few quarantine victims, and the MP who says it’s no good for the homeless is wrong.

Homeless people need a bed for the night, a roof over their heads and a bit of safety from getting beat up from the drunks who think it’s fun to pick on a homeless individual.

The place is ideal; they are close enough to help each other and far enough away to allow some privacy.

It would be criminal to let the place become anything other than a homeless shelter or of course for those getting away from the “other half” if they feel under threat.

If I was homeless, I would certainly head for the Wellcamp facility.

They can hardly turn away hundreds of homeless people from an unused government-built housing facility when they are ideal, even if some bureaucrat thinks it is no good.

They can run a soup kitchen in one of the blocks to ensure the cold and hungry make it through, and they can double or triple up the beds if necessary if it gets too busy.

It will be an ideal place for them to get some pride back, and once they are settled in they can start to apply for jobs and have a permanent address to use which is the biggest problem with trying to become re-employed again when you have no permanent place even for correspondence.

We as taxpayers must not let all this money go to waste and we must not forget that most of us are only a couple of months away from being homeless ourselves.

These people are not criminals, they are people who have been dealt a bad hand and are making of it what they can, and it’s up to us and the government to help them out of a spot, not to turn them away from an ideal housing facility and let the place just waste away.

Remember there are only 26 million of us in Australia, so we each gave $8.50 towards this encampment, and I certainly would like to see my $8.50 helping out a homeless person.

PAUL CLAPHAM, Southbrook