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Number of new homeless people rises by at least 7 a day

Focus Ireland launches its 2014 pre-Budget submission today and said that the government needs to avoid forcing more households into homelessness.

THE IRISH GOVERNMENT needs to ‘put people first’ in its Budget for 2014, and avoid forcing more households into homelessness, Focus Ireland has said.

In its pre-Budget 2014 submission, it said that there has been a rise of over 23 per cent in the number of people seeking Focus Ireland’s support since 2010.

Last year, more than 8,000 people turned to the charity for help.

Budget solutions

Focus Ireland is now calling on the Government to invest €400 million to help deliver 3,000 homes and boost the economy by creating up to 3,200 jobs in construction and supply.

It said that seven new people are becoming homeless in Dublin every day, while the number of families becoming homeless in the capital has doubled from 8 to 16.

In addition, it says that it is becoming harder for people to move out of homelessness due to severe unemployment, funding cuts to services and a growing shortage of affordable housing.

It pointed out that there are currently over 100,00 households on the social housing waiting list.

According to Focus Ireland, it is vital that Budget 2014:

kick starts a process of reform which will implement policies and deliver services to prevent people from losing their homes and help others to escape from homelessness.

It also calls for no further cuts to homeless services in the coming Budget.

Actions

The report outlines a number of specific actions for the government to take in Budget 2014, including:

  • Delivering a €400m boost to capital funding to build social housing in Dublin in Budget 2013, as part of the stimulus package to create jobs and meet social needs.
  • No further cuts in Department of Environment or HSE funding for homeless services.
  • Maintain social welfare payment for people of working age.
  • Ensure that family and child income supports are not reduced for low income families, including those in low paid employment and dependent upon Family Income Supplement.

The proposals will be presented to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance tomorrow at 11.30am.

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    Mute Niall O' Sullivan
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    Oct 29th 2015, 2:13 PM

    Anything RTE touch will turn to shit. What are the bets Twink will be hosting it or Marty Whelan.

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    Oct 29th 2015, 2:18 PM

    Brain Ormand, Derek Mooney,you see this sharp knife here….

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    Oct 29th 2015, 2:34 PM

    It’s not “Blind Date” there are no hosts on this show…

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    Oct 29th 2015, 4:01 PM

    And what bets it will fold by series 3.

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    Mute Brendan McGill
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    Oct 29th 2015, 11:09 PM

    I hope it’s the same production company behind it, rather than some crappy Irish version.

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    Oct 29th 2015, 2:33 PM

    Cue a bunch of attention seeking wannabe’s who will degrade themselves as much as possible to gain Z list celebrity status.. Just like that waste of Tv space “Tallaghtfornia”

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    Oct 29th 2015, 2:55 PM

    Dude have you seen the show?

    Sit down and be quiet there like a good lad til you have.

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    Oct 29th 2015, 6:19 PM

    ^^^^^ Tallaghfornia fan above!

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    Oct 29th 2015, 4:15 PM

    Pity tv3 are not doing it, they turned take me out into a comedy show

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    Oct 29th 2015, 4:20 PM

    There were some wagons on that TV3 one….the show where foreplay is an exchange of insults

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    Oct 29th 2015, 2:51 PM

    the ch 4 show has a “maitre d”, who talks about love and looking for love at the beginning of the show, so they’ll be looking for someone to do something like the ch 4 host, I’d say Brian Dowling

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    Oct 29th 2015, 6:54 PM

    He’d be a good fit I’d said, but I bet you a bag of chips, it’ll be Dáithí Ó Sé or some other such person.:P

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    Oct 29th 2015, 9:41 PM

    once its not that fecking Miriam o Callaghan and her 16 children, yawn yawn yawn, same old, same old…

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    Oct 29th 2015, 2:39 PM

    Anyone that goes on this show is in all probability a giant bell end

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    Oct 29th 2015, 3:43 PM

    how do I apply

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    Oct 29th 2015, 2:57 PM

    Probably be set in Coppers.. Couple of bags of chips after from Harry Ramsdens.

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    Oct 29th 2015, 6:51 PM

    I’d actually give this a shot. I’ve seen the channel 4 version and the folks on there come across as being fairly decent and down to earth. Granted, you could very well get a few bell ends on there, but you get that wherever you go in life. Many people, from what I can tell at least, want to go out for the date and see what happens.

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    Oct 29th 2015, 2:15 PM

    You can practically get next day sex on tinder,will this app beat that?

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    Oct 29th 2015, 2:19 PM

    not for you, leon – keep practicing on tinder m8…

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    Oct 29th 2015, 2:37 PM

    Next day? You’re doing tinder wrong.

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    Oct 29th 2015, 5:29 PM

    More bollocks!

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    Oct 30th 2015, 3:42 PM

    First dates are in restaurants now? How awkward and cringey. Does no-one go to the pub, get locked together, then go back to hers for a bit of slap and tickle? The Irish have turned into some shower of saddo wannabes.

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