Campaigners working with homeless people say thereÂ’'s a lack of political appetite to combat the issue.
At the end of September 3,328 people were living in emergency accommodation – an increase of 872 on the same period last year.
Juliette Gash reports;
A protest will be taking place in Dublin this evening against inaction on Housing and Homelessness.
It's also to mark the death of Jonathan Corrie, one year ago, today.
Dublin's Lord Mayor Críona Ní Dhálaigh says she hopes there'll be no more deaths of homeless people'
