Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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Question 111: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the breakdown of the way the allocated 5% increase in expenditure for homeless services as outlined in budget 2009 will be spent; the organisations which will receive this increase in funding; the portion of this increase which will go to front-line services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14915/09]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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My Department is responsible for funding accommodation and related costs of adult homeless services and the Health Services Executive is responsible for funding care related costs. Definitive allocations have not yet been issued by my Department for 2009. Housing authorities have been advised, however, of the need to prioritise front line services in the deployment of resources and of the need to prioritise resources towards progressing the key strategic objectives of the Government's homeless strategy, The Way Home, particularly the provision of suitable accommodation and necessary support to end long-term occupation of emergency homeless facilities.