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30th September 2022
12:48pm BST

We imagine there's going to be another rent increase. We're seeing pictures of students camping out beside the road, beside universities in Dublin and in Galway. It actually makes me think of Philly McMahon, the Dublin footballer we had on yesterday. His brother died homeless. He said there's ten thousand people who are homeless or in emergency accommodation at the minute. Three thousand seven hundred of them are children, it's frightening. When we think of the windfall taxes that are coming into this country. I think of my own kids, the pressures we have, and we have a roof over our head. With your government, there are 3,700 children without a home and there is more people going to fall into this because they can't afford rent.Varadkar responded that homelessness is "a lot more complicated than just building houses or money", and that he "hope(s) we see homelessness falling again over the course of the year - it was falling for quite some time. It's started going up again." You can watch the interview below. https://twitter.com/IrelandAMVMTV/status/1575082524216381442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1575082524216381442%7Ctwgr%5E80a579c05942d1a643bf70f0c8ecad80ef780039%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishmirror.ie%2Fsport%2Frugby-union%2Ftommy-bowe-earns-plaudits-ireland-28119557 Header image via Ireland AM READ NEXT: Due to 'crushing energy costs' Cistín Eile has closed in Wexford