It has been one year since the death of homeless 43-year-old Jonathan Corrie near the Dáil’s gates.
Today, a candlelit vigil will be held in memory of the man whose passing outraged the nation.
It took a man’s unjustifiable and agonizing death to spur the idle Government into doing something to address the homelessness crisis. Since, over €100m has been allocated to deal with the issue.
However, Mike Allen from Focus Ireland – one of the organisers of today’s rally – said that it is not enough.
“There are a lot more emergency beds available for people who are homeless, and there are more plans to deliver social housing,”
“But there’s very little additional social housing actually being delivered and people are much deeper in debt and there’s a much greater competition for the available private homes that are there.
“Defiantly, the Government has tried to rise to the challenge, unfortunately the problem has grown faster than they are responding to it.”