Journalist Evelyn O’Rourke spoke to a family of four who were made homeless after their landlord’s home was repossessed by a bank, for the Today With Seán O’Rourke show on RTÉ Radio One this morning.

The family is now living in a B&B in Dublin city centre which is housing 40 homeless families in total. The 40 families share one kitchen which has one cooker – four rings – and two microwaves. The families are provided with breakfast.

Sandra, who is pregnant,  Brendan and their children, aged seven and three, live in one en suite bedroom in the B&B.

During the report Ms O’Rourke spoke to Sandra and Brendan’s seven-year-old daughter.

“I don’t like it here. I mean, I’m not looking forward to Christmas. I don’t know how Santa is going to get in. And I don’t know where we’re gonna go for Halloween. Maybe we could trick or treat around our nanny’s. I don’t know.
[In the morning] I am sad and worried and I feel, cause when you’re just going down for breakfast, you’re just sitting there, with your Da, eating your breakfast with no friends or anything.”

“No, I don’t tell them {schoolmates]. People just say to me, ‘what’s it like over in your new house? and all that stuff. They say that. I just keep saying ‘it’s ok’ and all.”

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