Reverse the decision to cease providing emergency accommodation for homeless people in Kildare Petition: Signature List Feed http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/reverse-the-decision-to-cease-providing-emergency-accommodation-for-homeless-people-in-kildare.html Online petition signatures en-us Sun, 26 Apr 2026 04:59 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Ms. Ainamarin Puirseil [Signature #473] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18215498?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 Nov 2014 05:40:22 UTC 18215498 Mr Noel Boylan [Signature #472] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17837490?utm_medium=rss Fri, 12 Sep 2014 06:05:56 UTC 17837490 ms martha madriz [Signature #471] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17819738?utm_medium=rss Sun, 7 Sep 2014 05:06:03 UTC 17819738 Maura Garry [Signature #470] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17798996?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Aug 2014 04:54:27 UTC 17798996 mr anna dunne [Signature #469] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17787362?utm_medium=rss Sun, 24 Aug 2014 12:40:39 UTC 17787362 mr thomas dunne [Signature #468] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17787358?utm_medium=rss Sun, 24 Aug 2014 12:38:16 UTC 17787358 Terry Moore [Signature #467] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17773696?utm_medium=rss Please keep this open for our homeless, it is badly needed and much used by those who are more unfortunate than you or I.

]]> Tue, 19 Aug 2014 09:25:47 UTC 17773696 Michelle mckenna [Signature #466] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17773521?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Aug 2014 08:39:42 UTC 17773521 emma dunican [Signature #465] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17772753?utm_medium=rss We need to take care of the vunerable.

]]> Tue, 19 Aug 2014 04:54:44 UTC 17772753 Mr Caoimheann OFaolain [Signature #464] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17772735?utm_medium=rss Your legacy will be tarnished enough.
Take from the Homeless the little they have, and you deserve to go down in opprobrium.

]]> Tue, 19 Aug 2014 04:45:01 UTC 17772735 Ms helena MOONEY [Signature #463] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17772426?utm_medium=rss Hostel needs to remain the same as it has always done to provide emergency accomodation for homeless people

]]> Tue, 19 Aug 2014 03:03:54 UTC 17772426 Ms Linda MOONEY [Signature #462] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17772422?utm_medium=rss Hostel needs to remain the same as it has always done to provide emergency accomodation for homeless people

]]> Tue, 19 Aug 2014 03:02:12 UTC 17772422 miss Angela Nolan [Signature #461] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17770851?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Aug 2014 09:28:36 UTC 17770851 Ms Tanya Kirwan [Signature #460] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17770848?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Aug 2014 09:28:15 UTC 17770848 Karen Reid [Signature #459] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17770195?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Aug 2014 08:01:55 UTC 17770195 ms sonya mc mahon [Signature #458] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17769207?utm_medium=rss help the vulnerable in our society stop the cuts to good organisations mostly run by volunteers

]]> Tue, 19 Aug 2014 05:20:29 UTC 17769207 Mr Robert McGarr [Signature #457] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17768856?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Aug 2014 03:37:16 UTC 17768856 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #456] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17765456?utm_medium=rss Surely the responsibility for housing lies with the government, as a charity st Vincent de Paul should not discriminate on a who most needs basis. How do they decide who most needs? What do they intend to do for the emergency cases. Who will be responsible when an emergency case dies of hypothermia because this hostel was closed? If this should happen will st Vincent de Paul deem dodging the bullet as a charitable act?

]]> Mon, 18 Aug 2014 06:08:41 UTC 17765456 Ms Anonymous [Signature #455] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17763683?utm_medium=rss Mon, 18 Aug 2014 01:53:59 UTC 17763683 ms patrice anderson [Signature #454] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17763307?utm_medium=rss Mon, 18 Aug 2014 01:01:39 UTC 17763307 Ms Siobhan Smith [Signature #453] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17762443?utm_medium=rss Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:05:58 UTC 17762443 Leanne Sheehan [Signature #452] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17761972?utm_medium=rss Mon, 18 Aug 2014 10:27:24 UTC 17761972 Ms Frances Kelly [Signature #451] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17755166?utm_medium=rss Sun, 17 Aug 2014 05:42:13 UTC 17755166 Dawn Webb [Signature #450] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17754903?utm_medium=rss I think it a shame that this branch of the STV's - who generally do much good - feel so cosseted from the possibility of homelessness that they do not realise no one is exempt. It could you...

]]> Sun, 17 Aug 2014 04:30:45 UTC 17754903 Evonne Boland [Signature #449] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17754452?utm_medium=rss Sun, 17 Aug 2014 10:47:03 UTC 17754452 Ms Daire Barrett [Signature #448] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17752935?utm_medium=rss Sat, 16 Aug 2014 03:12:08 UTC 17752935 ms catherine o mahony [Signature #447] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17752067?utm_medium=rss Sat, 16 Aug 2014 04:30:53 UTC 17752067 Mr. Ian Conway [Signature #446] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17750671?utm_medium=rss An absolutely necessary service. Please reconsider.

]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2014 02:39:21 UTC 17750671 Kiera Kenna [Signature #445] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17750205?utm_medium=rss Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:29:32 UTC 17750205 Jacqueline Brady [Signature #444] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17750191?utm_medium=rss Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:24:46 UTC 17750191 ms Ailish Doyle [Signature #443] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17749550?utm_medium=rss AS SOME ONE WHO IS FACING THIS SITUATION I ASK THAT SOMEONE PLEASE TEAR UP THE RULE BOOK AND USE COMMON SENSE AND COMPASSION.

]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2014 05:37:13 UTC 17749550 ms patricia Hayes [Signature #442] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17747672?utm_medium=rss Not one Irish Man Woman are Child should know what it is like to be living on the streets not in 2014

]]> Thu, 14 Aug 2014 01:10:43 UTC 17747672 mrs ger o neill [Signature #441] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17747583?utm_medium=rss Too many empty boarded up houses, too many homeless, Act now.

]]> Thu, 14 Aug 2014 12:29:13 UTC 17747583 Liam Regan [Signature #440] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17747567?utm_medium=rss The situation of homeless people country-wide is a national disgrace ..With so many houses lying idle and boarded up,there should be no need for the number of homeess to be as high as it is.These houses shoud be made available for accomodation..

]]> Thu, 14 Aug 2014 12:13:51 UTC 17747567 Mr Jason Moore [Signature #439] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17746849?utm_medium=rss In my opinion, emergency homeless accommodation has been and will always be a crucial necessity in our community. I am immensely dissapointed and extremely concerned that this invaluable service will no longer be available to the vulnerable people in our local region.

]]> Thu, 14 Aug 2014 06:37:13 UTC 17746849 Sylvia Kennedy [Signature #438] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17746643?utm_medium=rss Thu, 14 Aug 2014 04:25:35 UTC 17746643 Mr Christopher France [Signature #437] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17746615?utm_medium=rss Thu, 14 Aug 2014 03:58:49 UTC 17746615 Miss Lavina O Reilly [Signature #436] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17746571?utm_medium=rss Thu, 14 Aug 2014 03:23:50 UTC 17746571 Mr Micheál Nolan [Signature #435] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17746381?utm_medium=rss Thu, 14 Aug 2014 01:19:34 UTC 17746381 Mr Ces Smyth [Signature #434] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17744943?utm_medium=rss Wed, 13 Aug 2014 02:33:20 UTC 17744943 ms liz arkins [Signature #433] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17744106?utm_medium=rss Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:13:28 UTC 17744106 mrs Anonymous [Signature #432] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17743716?utm_medium=rss Wed, 13 Aug 2014 06:24:11 UTC 17743716 mr James connolly [Signature #431] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17743203?utm_medium=rss Wed, 13 Aug 2014 01:50:25 UTC 17743203 mr noel Connolly [Signature #430] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17741761?utm_medium=rss Tue, 12 Aug 2014 05:07:55 UTC 17741761 Mr Michael Watson [Signature #429] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17741415?utm_medium=rss Tue, 12 Aug 2014 03:15:40 UTC 17741415 Noelle O'Loughlin [Signature #428] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17741402?utm_medium=rss Tue, 12 Aug 2014 03:12:18 UTC 17741402 Cllr Fiona OLoughlin [Signature #427] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17741243?utm_medium=rss The local volunteers have to be commended for the excellent work that they have done over the years. They, as well as the service users have not been treated well by this sudden proposed change, without adequate consultation. We need to have a self-referral emergency hostel, in addition to the proposed hostel for long-term homeless women and children.

]]> Tue, 12 Aug 2014 02:30:56 UTC 17741243 Miss Vicki Kelly [Signature #426] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17741162?utm_medium=rss Tue, 12 Aug 2014 02:11:34 UTC 17741162 Sean McCormack [Signature #425] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17741084?utm_medium=rss The people of Newbridge will see a lot of men sleeping rough this coming winter in and around the town

]]> Tue, 12 Aug 2014 01:50:45 UTC 17741084 Miriam McCormack [Signature #424] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17741081?utm_medium=rss The people of Newbridge will see a lot of men sleeping rough this coming winter in and around the town

]]> Tue, 12 Aug 2014 01:49:56 UTC 17741081 monica byrne [Signature #423] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17740989?utm_medium=rss Tue, 12 Aug 2014 01:29:54 UTC 17740989 ms linda loakman [Signature #422] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17740602?utm_medium=rss Tue, 12 Aug 2014 12:07:04 UTC 17740602 Miss Georgina Barnby [Signature #421] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17740329?utm_medium=rss There's homeless living in car park behind Penneys it's a disgrace

]]> Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:06:08 UTC 17740329 Mr Martin Heydon [Signature #420] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17738905?utm_medium=rss Michael Garry House should be restored to the emergency use for which it was originally intended from when it opened with the support of the people of Newbridge in 1997

]]> Tue, 12 Aug 2014 04:31:56 UTC 17738905 Mr Darren Boylan [Signature #419] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17738703?utm_medium=rss Tue, 12 Aug 2014 03:09:10 UTC 17738703 Mr Morgan McCabe [Signature #418] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17737769?utm_medium=rss Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:47:34 UTC 17737769 Ms Marie McLoughlin [Signature #417] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17736374?utm_medium=rss Mon, 11 Aug 2014 05:03:06 UTC 17736374 Ms Noeline Boylan [Signature #416] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17736369?utm_medium=rss I have worked as a volunteer there for 14 years, and its ashame to see a shelter being closed down as it does such good work to help the homeless men of Kildare and surrounding areas. It will be missed greatly come the winter when they will have to sleep rough again on our streets. I hope common sense prevails and it can be saved.

]]> Mon, 11 Aug 2014 05:02:17 UTC 17736369 Cllr. Paddy Kennedy [Signature #415] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17735701?utm_medium=rss At a time that we never had so many homeless we need to keep Michael Garry house open for our homeless men

]]> Mon, 11 Aug 2014 02:51:18 UTC 17735701 Ms Mairead Ryan [Signature #414] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17735554?utm_medium=rss To change the use of Michael Garry house would be a terrible, terrible mistake. It is truely a wonderful facility for out very vunerable homeless men. Where oh where will our homless go over the winter months? This facility MUST continue as a homeless shelter for men!

]]> Mon, 11 Aug 2014 02:21:17 UTC 17735554 Mr Tim Gallagher [Signature #413] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17734927?utm_medium=rss My view is best expressed by quoting Peter who was interviewed on KFM Radio this morning. He stated "If it wasn't for Michael Garry House I would not be here today." Peter is one of hundreds of homeless people who were provided with accommodation and support in the hostel over the past 17 years.
To say that it was a matter of life and death for some of those people is not overstating their plight. If this decision is not reversed there will be no homeless facility in the mid-Kildare region for homeless people to access in times of crisis.

]]> Mon, 11 Aug 2014 12:27:09 UTC 17734927 Ms Claire Doyle [Signature #412] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17734208?utm_medium=rss Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:54:58 UTC 17734208 Ms Sarah O'Dwyer [Signature #411] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17733335?utm_medium=rss Mon, 11 Aug 2014 06:47:48 UTC 17733335 Mrs Joanne Pender [Signature #410] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17732578?utm_medium=rss Mon, 11 Aug 2014 03:09:13 UTC 17732578 Cllr. Mark Lynch [Signature #409] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17726251?utm_medium=rss Sun, 10 Aug 2014 10:19:22 UTC 17726251 Mrs Johanna Mahon [Signature #408] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17725407?utm_medium=rss Sun, 10 Aug 2014 07:52:11 UTC 17725407 Mr John Mahon [Signature #407] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17725398?utm_medium=rss Sun, 10 Aug 2014 07:49:56 UTC 17725398 Aidan Toohey [Signature #406] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17725285?utm_medium=rss Sun, 10 Aug 2014 07:29:42 UTC 17725285 Mr Gerard Delaney [Signature #405] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17725251?utm_medium=rss Decision is disgraceful. House was purchased for the purpose of providing its current use & given to SVDP to run for that purpose. Morally reprehensible to do what is now proposed!

]]> Sun, 10 Aug 2014 07:24:48 UTC 17725251 Mr Declan Fry [Signature #404] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17725057?utm_medium=rss Sun, 10 Aug 2014 06:02:48 UTC 17725057 Mrs Carmel O'Reilly [Signature #403] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17719580?utm_medium=rss Homeless men seen sleeping rough by the river bank and under the bridge was a common enough sight prior to the opening of Michael Garry House. I know because I saw them.
Are sights like this again to be the legacy of SVP in Newbridge following the proposed closure of Michael Garry House

will

]]> Sat, 9 Aug 2014 01:26:33 UTC 17719580 pauline nagle [Signature #402] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17719123?utm_medium=rss Such a shame to see this happening. It is providing a roof over some person, who would probably be sleeping on a park bench otherwise.

]]> Sat, 9 Aug 2014 10:12:59 UTC 17719123 Cllr Willie Crowley [Signature #401] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17718646?utm_medium=rss I believe serious questions need to be answered in relation to this.

]]> Sat, 9 Aug 2014 07:12:41 UTC 17718646 Mrs. Tina Gallagher [Signature #400] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17715564?utm_medium=rss I worked in Michael Garry House as a volunteer for many years. It was a privilege to serve and interact with the hostel guests, men, women and children. The last four and a half years have been seriously stressful for all concerned as the management committee fought with SVP at national level, struggling to continue to provide emergency shelter for all homeless people, men, women and children. It is incomprehensible to think that all the 24 years hard work, (7 years preparation and 17 years service to homeless people) and the needs of people in our community who are now homeless, can be dismissed out of hand by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul who state in their mission statement: "we seek to respond to the call every Christian receives to bring the love of Christ to those in need.

]]> Fri, 8 Aug 2014 02:15:28 UTC 17715564 Ms Karen Reid [Signature #399] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17714778?utm_medium=rss Fri, 8 Aug 2014 10:24:26 UTC 17714778 Mr Morgan Geraghty [Signature #398] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17714258?utm_medium=rss Well done to all those that have helped run the hostel over the years. I hope the campaign to get SVP to reverse the decision is successful.

]]> Fri, 8 Aug 2014 08:39:29 UTC 17714258 Mr Ian Condon [Signature #397] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17713269?utm_medium=rss Fri, 8 Aug 2014 06:25:11 UTC 17713269 Frank Boland [Signature #396] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17713019?utm_medium=rss Fri, 8 Aug 2014 05:57:03 UTC 17713019 Mr Christopher Laffan [Signature #395] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17708138?utm_medium=rss Thu, 7 Aug 2014 07:38:38 UTC 17708138 Ms Niamh Callanan [Signature #394] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17707426?utm_medium=rss Thu, 7 Aug 2014 05:49:35 UTC 17707426 Ms Una Breathnach [Signature #393] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17707216?utm_medium=rss Where will the homeless men go when Winter comes?

]]> Thu, 7 Aug 2014 04:50:04 UTC 17707216 MARIA CUMMINS [Signature #392] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17707059?utm_medium=rss Thu, 7 Aug 2014 03:59:39 UTC 17707059 Miss Kim Brady [Signature #391] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17706668?utm_medium=rss Thu, 7 Aug 2014 01:50:10 UTC 17706668 ms amy booth [Signature #390] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17706536?utm_medium=rss Thu, 7 Aug 2014 01:09:31 UTC 17706536 Dr Lorraine Swords [Signature #389] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17705377?utm_medium=rss Thu, 7 Aug 2014 08:28:50 UTC 17705377 Rev John Marsden [Signature #388] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17705088?utm_medium=rss The Hostel has provided invaluable emergency service to people over many years. Without this emergency service people will end up sleeping rough and exposed to danger.

]]> Thu, 7 Aug 2014 07:04:02 UTC 17705088 ms sarah mccabe [Signature #387] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17704934?utm_medium=rss Thu, 7 Aug 2014 06:20:30 UTC 17704934 Ms Claire Burke [Signature #386] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17702052?utm_medium=rss Wed, 6 Aug 2014 04:50:27 UTC 17702052 Aine Moore [Signature #385] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17701833?utm_medium=rss Wed, 6 Aug 2014 03:47:05 UTC 17701833 Ms Anonymous [Signature #384] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17701750?utm_medium=rss Shocking thing to do to homeless men,taking away the only home they know.

]]> Wed, 6 Aug 2014 03:19:37 UTC 17701750 Ms Nikayla Phelan [Signature #383] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17701586?utm_medium=rss Wed, 6 Aug 2014 02:03:22 UTC 17701586 Ms Amanda McNamara [Signature #382] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17701362?utm_medium=rss Wed, 6 Aug 2014 12:24:39 UTC 17701362 Dr Niall O'Luanaigh [Signature #381] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17700839?utm_medium=rss Wed, 6 Aug 2014 10:33:12 UTC 17700839 Caitriona Cashin [Signature #380] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17700541?utm_medium=rss Wed, 6 Aug 2014 09:50:36 UTC 17700541 Mr Ahron Power [Signature #379] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17700066?utm_medium=rss Wed, 6 Aug 2014 08:48:19 UTC 17700066 Katherine Hyland [Signature #378] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17699972?utm_medium=rss Emergency services are desperately needed. Long term accommodation can be offered under different schemes. But the homeless need to be looked after. By changing Michael Garry House, who will look after the welfare of the homeless person on the street.

]]> Wed, 6 Aug 2014 08:33:49 UTC 17699972 Lisa Duffy [Signature #377] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17699788?utm_medium=rss Wed, 6 Aug 2014 08:08:50 UTC 17699788 daniel corry [Signature #376] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17699346?utm_medium=rss Wed, 6 Aug 2014 07:19:21 UTC 17699346 MR David OSullivan [Signature #375] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17698650?utm_medium=rss Wed, 6 Aug 2014 05:30:41 UTC 17698650 ms Susan Hogan [Signature #374] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17698130?utm_medium=rss Wed, 6 Aug 2014 03:49:06 UTC 17698130