A leading homelessness campaigner says that the accommodation crisis in this country is worse than it has ever been before.
Sister Stanislaus Kennedy was reacting to new figures, published by the Department of the Environment, that show there has been a 55% rise in the number of families presenting homeless in the country since the start of the year.
The figures also show that 1300 children were placed in emergency accommodation in the first six months of this year - up from 865 at the start of the year.
Sister Stan, founder of Focus Ireland, says in her thirty years working with the charity she has never seen anything like it:
