The latest homeless figures have been slammed as "truly shocking" as over 9,000 people are now without a home in Dublin.
A new report from the Department of Housing revealed that 9,160 people were in emergency accommodation in May. In total, there were 12,441 people accessing emergency accommodation across the country in May.
Sinn Fein's housing spokesperson Cllr Daithi Doolan said: "A whole new generation are being caught up in the trauma of homelessness. The real travesty is that this could all have been avoided