Support and services for the homeless crisis in Dublin has been described as "not good enough" as the death toll so far this year is already nearly more than the totals for 2019 and 2018.
There has been 31 deaths of people using homeless services in Dublin in 2020 with the figure just shy of the 34 and 35 homeless people who sadly died in the last two years respectively.
Shockingly in July, ten homeless people lost their lives in Dublin in a month that saw five of those coming over the space of just ten days.
Inner City Helping Homeless (ICHH) are demanding better support for those living rough in the capital with their CEO Anthony Flynn calling the figures "truly shocking".
He said: "A total of 31 who were homeless have died since the beginning of the year in Dublin with July seeing an extraordinary spike.
"100 individuals have died in service in the last 2.5 years. With many deaths being declared as unknown. This frankly isn't good enough.
"This cannot become acceptable, appropriate wrap round supports need to be put in place for all of those who are vulnerable with appropriate mental health supports on entering homeless services.
"Homelessness brings all sorts of complexities and deterioration of mental health is one such complexity.''
