City council refloats idea of housing homeless on cruise ship

Plan to rent ship to ease crisis should be ‘revisited’, says council chief Owen Keegan

Protestors from the 'Take Back the City' campaign staged a sit-down outside the Department of Taoiseach blocking traffic.

Dublin City Council (DCC) has been considering a plan to house up to 150 homeless people on a rented cruise ship, to help tackle the housing crisis.

The local authority had explored renting a cruise ship from a private operator, to house between 100 and 150 single homeless individuals, before shelving the idea.

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