Record Numbers Registered As Homeless In November
More than 13,500 people were living in emergency accommodation in November - a new record homeless figure.
It includes more than 4,000 children for the first time in the history of the state.
The Department of Housing has released its November homeless figures - usually, they are published at the end of each month however these were delayed due to Christmas.
They show there's a record number of people living in emergency accommodation with the State total at 13,514.
That includes more than 4,000 children for the first time ever who are growing up in B&Bs and hotels.
Dublin has the largest proportion of those in emergency accommodation at 9,906 - which includes more than 3,100 children.
The figures from the Department of Housing do not include asylum seekers, women in refuge centres, rough sleepers or the so-called hidden homeless.
In a statement, Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien said, "my Department is working flat out to meet this challenge and liaising closely with the local authorities and the homelessness NGOs to support households to exit homelessness to a tenancy."
