€1m a week paid out to shelter homeless
PAYMENTS exceeding €1.1miilion a week for sheltering the homeless have been made in the capital so far this year.
Figures provided by the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive for the first nine months of 2017 show hoteliers and private emergency accommodation providers have received €44.4million.
The figures show hoteliers have received €35million with private emergency accommodation providers receiving €9.2million.
The DHRE figures show the overall spend for the first nine months across all areas dealing with the homeless crisis totalled €89.5million. This includes a TROOPS killed one Palestinian yesterday and injured up to 200 in violent clashes over President Donald Trump’s decision to dub Jerusalem the capital of Israel.
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The payments to hoteliers, B&B owners and private emergency providers for the first nine months of this year represents a 3% increase on the €43million outlay under the same heading for the corresponding period last year.
The rising payments to hoteliers comes against the background of the latest figures from the DHRE showing that there were 3,385 adults and 2,335 children in emergency accommodation Crowd at US embassy yesterday beds in the capital. Independent member of Dublin City Council Mannix Flynn said that the payments to hoteliers “beggars belief ”.
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Speeches were made by the Lord Mayor Of Dublin Micheal Mac Donncha, Solidaritypeople Before Profit councillor John Lyons and Martin O’quigley from the IPSC. is being done is the warehousing of families and children and creating large profits for hoteliers from poverty.”
His colleague on Dublin City Council, Eilis Ryan said the payments to hotels and other providers to shelter the homeless “is propping up an entire sector”. She added: “You don’t see B&BS on Gardiner Street advertising anymore because they all have guaranteed income accommodating the homeless.”
A DHRE spokeswoman said: “The increase is a result of increase in demand for homeless services and the requirement to allocate staff to provide these services.”
rise in cash paid to hotels, B&BS and private accommodation