A young family made homeless at the weekend are refusing to stay another night in the emergency accommodation they were allocated because they claim it is filthy and infested with cockroaches.
Alan Fitzpatrick, 37, his wife Kelly, 30, and children Kasey, 17, Jack, 10, and Bobby, six, have now pitched a tent on a green area in Clondalkin – the Dublin suburb where Alan has lived all his life. They were given emergency accommodation in a Dublin city centre hotel by South Dublin County Council last Friday evening.
They had been living in a house in Clondalkin under the Housing Assistant Payment scheme (HAP) for the past 11 years. But in January they were informed by their landlord they would have to vacate the property on August 26.
