Sinn Féin has claimed 3,000 homeless people are being hidden from official government figures.
The party says rough sleepers, some people placed in accommodation by councils, Tusla, and the Departments of Children and Justice are not counted in the Department of Housing’s monthly figures.
9,724 people were living in homeless accommodation across Ireland in the month of October according to the Department's latest figures.
But Sinn Féin says the true figure is 12,805.
Earlier this year, 1,600 people were removed from the list after a re-categorisation by the Department.
Sinn Féin's housing spokesperson, Eoin Ó’Broin, says the counting of homeless people needs to change:
Ó’Broin says "The probelem is worse than the government is admitting. The measures that they're putting in place to tackle it is nowhere near good enough."
"We want an agreed methodology for next year, and then we think the figures showed be handed over to the CSO or to the housing agency."
