Sandwith Street attack and housing crisis
Mary Lou McDonald condemned the attack at Sandwith Street and argued it exposed a decade-long housing crisis and the Government’s failures on homelessness and arrivals. The Chair cut her off for time, and she called for questions on the issue.
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I too rise to condemn the outrageous, appalling attack over the weekend at Sandwith Street in Dublin. However, I listened to the Minister's fielding of questions from colleagues on this matter and I have to say she is most unconvincing in her presentation. The reality is that in a First World wealthy state, we have endured a housing crisis for more than a decade. Irish people find themselves homeless.
Irish people find themselves sofa-surfing or living in their mother's box room without hope or prospects. Now we have the additional crisis of people arriving to our shores, decent people seeking sanctuary here, and being left on our streets. That is a scandal. That is shameful and responsibility for it lies with those in government. I ask that the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, and the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, present themselves to the House and set out their plan to get every person off the streets to resolve finally-----
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-----this outrage and take questions on those matters.