IRELAND – A mother with four children, who have been living in emergency accommodation for just over a year, has said the situation is “very tough”.
Figures published by the Department of Housing today show there are now 5,014 children without a home and living in State-provided accommodation.
Among those included in today’s figures are Lisa and her young children.
Lisa said she has been living in emergency accommodation with her children for just over a year, since her HAP landlord sold up.
She, along with her children, aged between one and eight, now share a room in a guesthouse in the centre of Dublin.
“It’s been hard because it’s been for the sake of the children, there’s not much that they can really do in the building. There’s no support,” she said, adding that the impact of such living is having a profound impact on her children.
“It’s having so many effects on my children … they don’t even want to get up and go to school. They don’t even want to go out and socialise, they’re getting social anxiety, they’re depressed. My little one is eight years of age, and she has anxiety. She never had it before,” Lisa said.
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