The cloak of secrecy surrounding the hundreds of millions of euro in taxpayers’ money spent each year on firefighting measures against the immediate impacts of the housing crisis is slowly lifting, and journalists can take full credit. In a transparency policy U-turn, Dublin City Council has included, for the first time, the payments it makes on behalf of the four Co Dublin local authorities to private providers of emergency homeless accommodation in its published quarterly list of purchase orders over €20,000. The inclusion was first reported by Colm Keena in The Irish Times on Tuesday, showing that the largest providers…

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