Number of people in temporary emergency accommodation defined by the dept as having “no (or minimal) supports.
November 2018:64
December 2018:66November 2019: 64
December 2019: 22502,186 in 1 month in accommodation without proper onsite supports.#AskWhy #GE2020 pic.twitter.com/veuHpi7B24
— ICHHDUBLIN (@ICHHDUBLIN) January 30, 2020
From top: Eoghan Murphy and Richard Bruton (head down) at the Fine Gael General Election 2020 manifesto launch; tweet from Inner City Helping Homeless
Last week
The Department of Housing released its latest homeless figures which showed there were 9,731 people (6,309 adults and 3,422 children) living in emergency accommodation in the final week of December 2019.
This represented a decrease of 387 adults and a decrease of 330 children compared to the figures for November 2019 when there were 10,448 people (6,696 adults and 3,752 children) living in emergency accommodation in the final week of November 2019.
However…
…homeless charity Inner City Helping Homeless (ICHH)have been questioning the figures, last night writing:
“Last week the Department of Housing released the homeless report for December 2019 alongside their report for the fourth quarter of 2019.
The report stated a reduction of 717 people from the report for November 2019.
Upon further inspection we noticed a huge difference in the number of people listed as being in a TEA (Temporary Emergency Accommodation), an accommodation type with “No (or minimal) supports on site”.
The increase in this particular section was 3,146% [from 64 in Dublin in November to 2,250 in December] We were quick to highlight this on our social media platforms as it didn’t add up alongside the number of people that were removed in the space of one month.’
They added:
‘Upon further investigation on both the Department’s website and the Rebuild Ireland website, we noticed that the report had actually been updated due to miscalculation however this update was never communicated to either homeless charities nor the media based on the feedback we have received.
What is clear from our investigation was that the first report was an error due to invalid data entry.
On the first report the figures under PEA/STA were the total of people in PEA’s so should have been added together.
Instead they were put in incorrect columns and not added which explained the increase of 3,146% in the TEA column however with a general election a week away this wasn’t communicated to anyone.
A deeper comparison of the fourth quarter report versus the December report doesn’t show how it could be possible that 717 fewer people were homeless in December vs the November report.
“Using Dublin as an example the December report stated there were 94 less families homeless in Dublin. When we look at the quarterly report from the department it shows the number of families entering homelessness each month versus the number of families exiting homelessness.
According to their own report 44 new families became homeless in December while 98 families exited homelessness which is a difference of 54 families not 94.
This has raised alarm bells with regards to the entire report as the last time we saw a decline like this the Department had reclassified 1,606 people and removed them from the homeless list despite some councils stating they disagreed with the decision.
We have submitted a Freedom of Information request to clarify both how so many people exited emergency accommodation in December and why the errors in the original published report was not communicated correctly.’
Anyone?
Oh Ireland, my first and only love.
new chart here:
https://www.housing.gov.ie/sites/default/files/publications/files/homeless_report_-_december_2019_2.pdf
PEA and STA now show suspiciously huge drops instead of the mad increase in TEA
put a big grain of salt in your TEA it seems
jaysus posh-boy is as good with numbers as his grand daddy
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/article30638849.ece
“..But let’s begin with their embezzling accountant grandfather, Russell Murphy.
He was the accountant to the stars back in the 1980s, but it was only after his death in 1984 that it was discovered that Murphy embezzled £2m of his famous clients’ money. Those clients included Gay Byrne and dramatist Hugh Leonard.
Such was his infamy that he became a figure of ridicule on RTE’s Scrap Saturday series. In that, we hear the Gaybo character bemoaning his lot in life at the age of 57, having to traipse into RTE from the northside at 6.30am to listen to every menopausal woman in the country, because “that bas**rd Russell Murphy” had robbed him blind.
Before his death, Leonard said in an interview: “We both got burnt by Russell Murphy. He was supposed to invest our money.”
Ha haaaaa.
FG love to fiddle figures. Always caught out, and quickly. Noonan and his fiscal space corrected by SF.
Post Boy murphy loves re-classifying homeless to try fiddle the figures. Try as he may, he can’t escape from his abysmal performance. Boy letting go do a mans job.
he probably views it as a “lark” like those stories his nanny read to him before beddy time
At least his grand dad was not a murderer, smuggler, bank robber or a “I was never member of the IRA” type.
whataboutery – the last refuge of blushirt panic
Whataboutery – murder, smuggling is whataboutery? You didn’t address the issue. And I’m no blueshirt (what is a blueshirt – do you even know?), just think that calling out you shinners on this website is entirely appropriate. Anytime the shinners are criticised on here it’s “fear” or “panic” in the return comments. Look at the mess you made in your home country where you have had no govt for 3 years, and were only propped up by the Conservatives, ffs. The Conservatives – the most right wing party ever, supporting all your cushy civil service and “community” jobs.
jeepers, the fear is palpable, how you’ve managed to rehabilitate ff and make the shinners electable in the one campaign beggars belief, but it’s a fitting reward for your pro vulture fund / anti citizen approach to the economy for the past 11years. Enjoy the blood-letting as you remove leo, I know I will.
let it go “a person” .. your party are firmly on the way out and somehow none of you seem to have seen how bashing Sinn Fein doesn’t work. And you absolutely are engaging in whataboutery. This article is about the housing minister and the homeless situation, and you’re talking about Sinn Fein, and not even in context of housing/homelessness. That is, the definition of whataboutery. And when someone points it out or challenges it you double down with “you didn’t answer my question” which is a very thinly veiled “don’t go back to the thing im wrong about, keep it on the distraction im introducing” .. and if you wanna play whataboutery, what about the blood on your parties hands? no one picked up a gun, but your parties policies have cost many many lives. not that you’d care. also cant believe you don’t know where blueshirt derives from.
you and your party are a horrible, vindictive, selfish bunch and I truly hope you never see a whiff of power ever again.
Dav and Goo and Fart, I don’t have a party, you obviously do (again what is a blueshirt). The comments I made were in direct criticism by your comrades to Murphy re homelessness and the fact that the comments were directed at a relative of the Minister as opposed to the issue. Do you not get that.? Why not respond to the real issues raised, and why always respond with “fear” comments? Why not respond to my comments re previous and ongoing criminality? how you are funded? how come you are run by people in NI? how come Gerry won’t admit to being in the RA? Go on, I dare you to get the central command to respond to the previous 5 questions.
pretty weak.
you don’t have to look far back into FG’s past to find their pro treaty roots and the IRA before that.
not a huge distinction great grandad versus grandad in my opinion.
as to FF – what was Haughey up to in the Arms Tribunal?
Dav and Goo and Fart, where are you gone? Are your office hours over? Are the shinners only paying you 9 to 5, or are you not getting clearance to reply, or even worse they are paying for your mobile and therefore will not reply? Why are you always males?
Shouldn’t you be bulldozing homeless people into a skip somewhere?
goodness, fg central must be a desolate place..
No reply to the questions above. Did the 6 guys in Belfast shut you down, waved the fleg? Why not respond to my comments re previous and ongoing criminality? how you are funded? how come you are run by people in NI? how come Gerry won’t admit to being in the RA?