Focus Ireland say that emergency accommodation used for homeless families is scarce as the tourism sector continues to thrive.
Hotels and B&Bs are booked out as holidaymakers flock to Ireland and as a result many homeless families are finding it increasingly difficult to find a bed.
Yesterday the Department of the Environment published new figures which show there has been a 55 per-cent rise in the number of families presenting homeless in the country since the start of the year.
And Sister Stanislaus Kennedy from Focus Ireland says in her thirty years working with the charity she has never seen anything like it;
