Coveney: 'No five-year-old child should be eating their dinner from cardboard on the street'

File photo Image: Svetlana.Is/Shutterstock File photo Image: Svetlana.Is/Shutterstock TÁNAISTE SIMON COVENEY has said it is “not acceptable” that a five-year-old child had to eat his dinner on the streets of Dublin.

Latest figures from the Department of Housing show that 10,338 people were in emergency accommodation in Ireland in August, including 6,490 adults and 3,848 children. “It is a national shame. How can we, as a nation, accept this? How can the government stand over this?” he said.

So what are you going to actually do about it simoncoveney

If only he was in government to do something about it. Oh wait he.............

Yes the parents should be ashamed of themselves if that's the life they have choosen for their child. As the saying goes you need a licence to have a dog but nothing to have a child.

Words are cheap !!! Actions speak louder than words. Do something about it ?

This time next week , it be history.

I didn't realise there were any homeless people in Ireland until I saw that picture, now I'm outraged.

Let me guess. He has proposed a committee to recommend something vague to Zapone to launched and forgotten.

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