346. Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government why the number of homeless children in Dublin has doubled in the past year; why he and his Government did not give this primary consideration in the recent budget by providing an immediate solution to the housing crisis that is affecting more than 1,000 children in Dublin, considering that Ireland signed up to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1992, an article of which states that it is the responsibility of the State to meet the basic needs of a child, including providing adequate shelter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37088/15]

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346. Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government why the number of homeless children in Dublin has doubled in the past year; why he and his Government did not give this primary consideration in the recent budget by providing an immediate solution to the housing crisis that is affecting more than 1,000 children in Dublin, considering that Ireland signed up to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1992, an article of which states that it is the responsibility of the State to meet the basic needs of a child, including providing adequate shelter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37088/15]

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