Lo statuto vieterebbe le corse “ben intenzionate” alle mense dei poveri per strada verso i senzatetto di Dublino
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2024/12/27/on-street-soup-kitchens-to-be-banned-under-new-dublin-city-council-bylaws/
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Indignity of eating outside > Indignity of being homeless.
Translation.
We don’t want to see hungry people queuing for food because ewwww.
Good luck getting this through the council. Nobody in their right mind apart from ardent fg heads would go for this.
> Karl Mitchell, who represented the council on the Dublin taskforce, said the council had been in ongoing contact with volunteers ahead of drafting the bylaws. The street was “not the right place” to offer such services, but he said any new laws would be complemented by an increase in indoor services.
No, see, you need to make the indoor services available ***first***, *then* you can ban the outdoor stuff.
“The street was “not the right place” to offer such services, but he said any new laws would be complemented by an increase in indoor services.“
Find that hard to take at face value.
Tone deaf. The Capuchin day centre can’t cope with the demand. So now they’ll leave people hungry for bureaucratic reasons.
Street markets where people pay for artisan hummus are great, but street food for the poor are inappropriate.
They won’t police it, I mean guards are like hen’s teeth walking around unless there’s some dignitary in town.
More fuel for the class war fire
Another way of rather than tackling the issue, the council just being hostile to homeless people
Some of these homeless people are quite tall and they ruin the famous Dublin skyline.
What feels like only last week, people were saying how the majority of people availing of these on street sevices were students and roma gang’s just abusing the Capuchin free food.
Whats the truth or is everyone adding their two cents just talking out their hole?
Why not make indoor spaces available and invide the volunteers running on street soup kitchens to use those spaces? Then they don’t have to ban anything.
They certainly shouldn’t be allowed to operate at the likes of the GPO, the centre of our capital city, and a destination for most of the tourists who come here.
Devil’s advocate – a lot of these people mean well but there’s a number of issues around them
First is that the food itself isn’t made in a kitchen where HACCP training is around and therefore can’t be guaranteed to be fit for human consumption. They also don’t have a certified cold chain.
Many also aren’t registered charities and don’t produce audited accounts.
The other issue is that Dublin has an over concentration of these types of runs and they detract away from the 3 main DRHE subcontractors (Focus, Simon and PMV). Those 3 should be the only providers of services in the city because they’re trained, will provide certified food safe for human consumption and they link in with housing services, HSE services for things like mental health and addiction, Gardaí, social workers and many more.
Excluding IPAS applicants, there are 128 rough sleepers in Dublin as per the last count and 118 of these were individuals known to the service and generally have an accomodation guarantee, but for all sorts of reasons they don’t show up.
We’re not far from a situation where we’re going to have a unique homeless service for every rough sleeper in the city.