A total of 47 people using or known to homeless services died in Dublin last year.
The Dublin Region Homeless Executive (DRHE) had been informed of the deaths of 45 homeless people in addition to two people who were non-service users in 2022. This is down from the 68 deaths reported in 2021 and the 49 deaths in 2020.
The figures have been slammed as "unacceptably high" by the HSE clinical lead for the Dublin Covid-19 homeless response, Dr Austin O'Carroll, who has been appointed by the DRHE to review how the deaths occurred, The Journal reports. Dr Carroll had been previously tasked with reviewing the mortality of people experiencing homelessness in 2020.
