The ban is due to come to an end in March.
amid a surging number of homelessness.
in the months ahead; many hotels are expected to return to catering for tourists and Minister O’Gorman stressed that the Government needed to reduce its reliance on private housing providers. Some 5,800 modular and refurbished accommodation places are expected to become available in the months ahead but officials do not expect this will be enough.“We haven’t made any decision on that as a Government just yet whether or not it will be extended,” he told“The figures that we have so far do relate to November and that would have only been in the very early stages of that - we don’t have the numbers from December yet.
In response, the Simon Communities of Ireland urged the Government to speed up the provision of accommodation for those in need.
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