Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Interim Report on Mortality in Single Homeless Population 2020: Engagement with HSE

Dr. Austin O'Carroll:

If I just open up my slides I will find the figures. The crude mortality rate in STAs in 2018 was 11% while in PEAs it was zero. In 2019, it was 11.2% in STAs and 6.8% in PEAs. In 2020 it was 17.3% in STAs and 12.3% in PEAs. That is where the mortality rates were narrowing. The population has been constantly rising in both. I will give the statistics for the past three years. In STAs, it was 1,623 in 2018, 1,689 in 2019, 1,678 in 2020 compared with 629 in PEAs in 2018, 888 in 2019 and 1,214 in 2020. The number in STAs has stayed fairly stable over the past three years but the number in PEAs has increased significantly and has almost doubled.

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