The Irish Government is being urged to implement funding they have drawn down from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to build social homes in Ireland.

Sinn Féin MEP Liadh Ní Riada made the call in the European Parliament in Brussels.

She said: "I understand that the European Investment Bank (EIB) has allocated €1billion to the British Government to help them construct social housing. In Ireland, our homeless crisis has reached epidemic status.

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"We need the Irish Government, along with the EIB to step up to the mark and address the spiraling housing crisis that is causing so much damage to our people and our society.

"In this, the centenary year of the 1916 Easter Rising, it is not good enough that any child should lack a home. I urge the EIB to help address the homeless situation in Ireland and invest in social and affordable housing."

(CD)