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Homeless charity’s frontline staff have yet to get vaccines Three Alice Leahy Trust workers who provide face-to-face services to homeless people have been waiting eight weeks for their Covid-19 jabs 22nd April, 2021
Alice Leahy, director of services at the Alice Leahy Trust: ‘Unlike other frontline workers my colleagues have not been vaccinated.’ Picture: Rollingnews.ie
A homeless charity is still waiting for its frontline staff to be scheduled for a vaccine, almost eight weeks after they first registered for the jab.
Four staff who provide face-to-face services at the Alice Leahy Trust in Dublin 8 registered to be vaccinated on March 1, but only one has received their first dose.
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Henry McKean took an early morning walk with Alice Leahy who runs the Alice Leahy Trust, a befriending social and health service for people who are homeless.
The second Good Friday of the Pandemic Henry McKean checks in with Alice Leahy again and walks the streets of Dublin, coming across rough sleepers in tents beside traffic and meeting homeless people along the way, asking how has the last year been? Alice Leahy started their walk in Rathmines.
Strong justification to extend ban on evicting tenants It is Homeless Awareness Day Cate McCurry, PA 29 January, 2021 13:58
There s a very strong justification to extend the blanket ban on evicting tenants after the pandemic, an expert in homeless policy has said.
Professor Eoin O Sullivan, a researcher at Trinity College Dublin, said the emergency protections for renters has made a significant difference in the number of families entering emergency accommodation.
The Dublin government brought in an emergency ban on evictions and a freeze on rents at the outset of the pandemic. The moratorium has been extended until early March, in line with Level 5 Covid-19 restrictions.
There’s a very strong justification to extend the blanket ban on evicting tenants after the pandemic, an expert in homeless policy has said.
Professor Eoin O’Sullivan, a researcher at Trinity College Dublin, said the emergency protections for renters has made a significant differences in the number of families entering emergency accommodation.
The Government brought in an emergency ban on evictions and a freeze on rents at the outset of the pandemic. The moratorium has been extended until early March, in line with Level 5 Covid-19 restrictions.
At the end of December 2020, there were 755 families in emergency accommodation. This is the lowest monthly figure since December 2015.