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Numbers of People Sleeping Rough in Dublin City Remain at High Levels

category national | public consultation / irish social forum | press release author Monday March 22, 2004 17:05author by Roughan Mac Namara - Focus Irelandauthor email rmcnamara at focusireland dot ieauthor address 9-12 High Street, Dublinauthor phone 01 8815 900 Report this post to the editors

Numbers of people sleeping rough in Dublin city centre remain at record high levels, according to a new survey conducted by homeless organisations. Two hundred and thirty seven (237) people sleep rough in Dublin on any given night. The survey co-ordinated by the Homeless Agency was carried out by Focus Ireland, Dublin Simon Community, Merchant’s Quay Ireland along with Dublin City Council and other homeless services.

Commenting on the results of the survey Declan Jones, Chief Executive of Focus Ireland said: “These figures show the number of people sleeping rough in Dublin has remained more or less static in recent years despite a Government strategy to specifically target this problem.”

The survey found that 237 people were sleeping rough in the city centre. The last official count of people who are homeless conducted by the ESRI and the Homeless Agency in 2002 found that three hundred and twelve (312) were sleeping rough in the Greater Dublin Area. The current survey only counted people sleeping rough in the city centre and does not include people rough sleeping in the suburbs. But these figures are unlikely to have gone down, given Dublin City Council’s recent policy of moving people who are homeless out of city centre locations.

Greg Maxwell, Director of Dublin Simon said: “Dublin Simon has succeeded in moving hundreds of people from the streets into emergency and other forms of accommodation in the last few years. However, the numbers of new people becoming homeless combined with lack of long-term housing for people in emergency accommodation has meant that numbers of rough sleepers remain at high levels. Rough sleeping will never be solved unless the Government makes a commitment to providing permanent, appropriate housing for people who are homeless, particularly single homeless people.”

A record total of 5,581 (DOE 2002) people are homeless in Ireland, with almost three thousand (2,900) adults and over eleven hundred (1,140) children homeless in Dublin. The vast majority live in emergency hostels and B&B accommodation on a night-by-night basis. Focus Ireland and Dublin Simon Community maintain the Government’s failure to provide enough permanent housing is forcing these people to remain homeless for longer than ever. Mr. Jones said: “If the people stuck living in emergency accommodation were moved into permanent housing it would quickly free up bed places and resources which could then be used to target the most marginalized people who are sleeping rough on a long term basis who often have additional problems. These people require targeted support services and not just a bed for the night if they are to have any chance of staying off the streets.”

Related Link: http://www.focusireland.org
author by R Isiblepublication date Mon Mar 22, 2004 21:09author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I note the report says that the numbers sleeping out have been static in "recent years". What does that mean? Is there any decrease in homelessness correlated with the "booming" economy?

author by pol macaongus - nonepublication date Mon Mar 22, 2004 21:21author email pmac1_6 at msn dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

Irish Catholic Organisations and others are not doing enough for these poor people that sleep on our streets in Ireland. Money collected should be spent on housing for these people.

The Religiours Orders in Ireland could provide housing and shelter in many of their religious houses in Ireland.

author by pcpublication date Wed Mar 24, 2004 16:54author address author phone Report this post to the editors

cos people not sure what to do to help in the long or short term


see the reports of affordable housing in cork... no ones seems to want to move into corpo estates.... for fear of the neighbours :(

author by Paul Mac,publication date Tue May 04, 2004 21:21author email pmac1_6 at msn dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

Whats Sister Stan doing in such a small centre in Temple Bar. The money thats collected for her organization Focus Ireland could build another Croke Park for the homeless in Dublin alone.

author by Ernie - Ernie.orgpublication date Fri Nov 19, 2004 22:25author address author phone Report this post to the editors

If Irelands homeless were to take Nigerian citizenship, and then apply for asylum they woulld no longer be homeless. Could get Michael D Higgins to do a mercy dash to Lagos for passports.

author by Anonymouspublication date Sat Nov 20, 2004 03:12author address author phone Report this post to the editors

237 people sleeping rough in dublin. A city of one million. now thats .000237% of the cities population. This in all fairness can hardly be described as a crisis. When you take into consideration that a large proportion of these people are alcoholics/addicts who refuse nightly accomodation offered by the Night Bus because the hostels are alcohol free then you have to conclude that it is not nearly as grave a problem as the thousands of families who have homes and are trying to raise families on the minimum wage.

It is also worth noting in reply to some of the comments re religious orders that most of the homeless accomodation in Dublin is provided either directly or indirectly by religious organisations eg Dublin diocese, Franciscans, De Paul , Focus, Salvation Army, Arrupe Society.

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