Bylaws would ban ‘well-meaning’ on-street soup kitchen runs to Dublin homeless

The report by social policy consultant Mary Higgins found on-street services were undermining regulated services and exposing vulnerable people to “undignified” and “unsafe” conditions. Groups “do not have the skills or experience to engage with people who are homeless, and there are examples of their interventions undermining the work of mainstream providers and possibly supporting people to remain on or return to the streets”, she said.