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HOMELESS CHARITY THE Peter McVerry Trust has opened a 100 beds for homeless people over the past number of days, bringing to just under 1,000 the number of beds they provide across the country.
The 100 new beds form part of the 333 that were promised in the government’s winter strategy. They are “permanent” beds that will stay in the system after winter and are located across Dublin, Kildare and Meath.
PMVT is heralding the opening of the beds as a milestone in its service in that it now provides nightly accommodation for just under 1,000 people affected by homelessness.
Latest figures show that there were a total of 6,157 homeless adults and 3,811 homeless children living in state-funded emergency accommodation in Ireland in November.
The vast majority of these are living in the Dublin region, where PMVT’s services are mostly located.
The homeless charity – which was set up by Fr Peter McVerry in the 1970s – is funded by government through the Department of Housing to carry out essential services for Ireland’s homeless population.
These include providing long- and short-term accommodation and hands on support and advocacy for people without homes.
PMVT is also part-funded funded through donations from the public.
Commenting on the opening of the new beds, Pat Doyle, CEO of the organisation said:
“This additional capacity means that Peter McVerry Trust is now delivering support to just under 1,000 people, with 980 people accommodated each night in our homeless services, the largest provision to date.
This new provision comes at the end of an exceptionally busy year for Peter McVerry Trust when we expanded provision across all areas of the organisation including our detox service, our U18s residential aftercare programme and secured significant capital investment in our housing programme.
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That’s some jolly up for the lads
They might learn what a real riot is
I thought Gardai were understaffed. But any opportunity to impress our EU masters and hey presto we find 56 that are not needed.
Jesus can we not comment on any article now……the CAMHS article below….Tipperary branch told my 16 year old unless your going to kill yourself, we can’t help you……I had to bring my daughter to G.P 8 times in a couple of months and paid for private counselling…but hey ho there’s an endless pit of money for anyone that’s not Irish…
@Clare Power: Just walk into the IPAS office, say you’re from Georgia and lost your passport. Tell them you’re being victimized because you’re gay. Hey presto, free medical card!
@YKwkSIqW: it would be funny if it wasn’t the truth
@Clare Power: It’s complete lunacy.
@Clare Power: Hope things work out fir you and your family and you get the support required
@F T: sorted now thank God
@Clare Power: piss poor this Journal
@Clare Power: my daughter went through the CHAMS system for a number of years. She got absolutely nothing from it. Constant waiting, then cancellations, sometimes within a half hour of her appointment. It’s a total train crash.
The French police will eat them alive. And they’ll show them how to be real police
I hope they’ll get a good orientation course. They’ll need to know where to get chips after hours and where they can scab freebies.
Could we get a dig out in Dublin from the gendarme
They don’t need them at the Portal now
Law & Order in complete tatters at home, yet the Garda Siochana are able to send 56 Gardai to France. I recall an incident last year where a young female student was being assaulted in broad daylight by a male & other students couldn’t get anyone to come out from the Divisional HQ 10 mins away. Sadly the Gardai Siochana has become politicized & these type of ventures along with incidents such as punishing a Garda for giving a bike to an elderly man or hitting innocent people with batons in Newtown only serve to alienate the public even further. All just, to look good in Europe.
This is great in theory but can’t imagine that the Irish Po Po have the competence to police an event of such magnitude. They go into hiding at the best times. Key stone cops. “Dig out”
It’s great to see EU countries helping each other in so many ways
Probably for the best as the Irish ferals are throwing a tantrum when the law gets applied to them.
Isn’t France the country who wants to send troops on the ground in Ukraine? But needs foreign nations to lend a hand to secure France during the Olympics? That country and its boytoy president are a joke.
@Ryan Hulin (ryansjourneys): drag us along with them headcase
What they going to do, hit people with a breakfast roll?
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