Activist deborah_somorin Somorin says Leo Varadkar is lying about homeless data in Ireland IrelandUnfiltered
You can read what she had to say below.We had Leo Varadkar on this show and he was talking about homelessness and I was saying about children growing up in emergency accommodation and he said, well, the average time span any child spends in emergency accommodation now is six months.Well, he said there are exceptions. But if you take him at his word, your experience of that, six months as an average time to be spending in emergency accommodation for a child is still a long time.
For me, when I hear things like that it just breaks my heart because I know, and [Varadkar knows] that’s not the reality, he knows. These kids have nobody else. They have nothing else. And if you’re the kids sitting at home, in emergency accomodation who’s been in there for longer than six months, who’s been in there for a year or two years and you’re watching him say it’s an exceptional basis and you know there’s so much more than you.
And that’s the big thing for me with Empower the Family, focussing on disadvantaged single parents; this is a community that I have come from that feel left behind, that feel education is not for them, that feel they’re not wanted there, that feel ignored.
Somorin also spoke about her experience of adapting to life in Ireland and how she didn't realise she was black until she moved to Naas, which you can read about
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