Dublin City Council chief executive Owen Keegan has been slammed following his "deeply insulting" comments regarding homeless support groups.
The DCC boss called people who provide tents to homeless people "virtue signallers". He said that these groups "continue to promote and sustain rough sleeping".
Sinn Fein's Micheal Mac Donnacha has criticised the remarks and said: "It is deeply insulting for Dublin City Council Chief Executive Owen Keegan to state that groups assisting homeless people in our city ‘continue to promote and sustain rough sleeping’. This is simply not true. The people providing these voluntary services are trying to meet the needs of the most marginalised people in our city.
