A mother with four children, who have been living in emergency accommodation for just over a year, has said the situation is "very tough".
Among those included in today's figures are Lisa and her young children.
Lisa said she has been living in emergency accommodation with her children for just over a year, since her HAP landlord sold up.
She, along with her children, aged between one and eight, now share a room in a guesthouse in the centre of Dublin.
"It's been hard because it's been for the sake of the children, there's not much that they can really do in the building. There's no support," she said, adding that the impact of such living is having a profound impact on her children.
"It's having so many effects on my children … they don't even want to get up and go to school. They don't even want to go out and socialise, they're getting social anxiety, they're depressed. My little one is eight years of age, and she has anxiety. She never had it before," Lisa said.
She explained that the space where they live is tight: "It's a one bedroom with three beds and a cot and a bathroom, and there's not much space.
"My one-year-old child can't even play out on the floor or anything because there's not much space for him to play.
"It's very tough. He's not reaching every milestone that he should be reaching because of the sake of being crowded and stuck in one room."
She added: "Their diet isn't the best because we're either eating takeaways or we're living out of air fryer food. We haven't really gotten much cooking facilities other than microwaves and hobs that we can cook on."
Lisa too is feeling the impact, and is now desperate to get back a permanent roof over her head.
"It's affected my mental health, and it's affected me, as if I can't have stability for my children. I'd love to be able to give them their own little place you can call a home, their own room, their own life, like not having to walk out [on] the streets and see all sorts," added Lisa.
