Martin Ferris (Kerry North, Sinn Fein)
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Question 38: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of additional homeless households that were housed in 2009 and in the first quarter of 2010 above the allocation pattern from 2005 to 2008 in line with the commitments outlined in The Way Home Homeless Strategy, to end long term homelessness by the end of 2010. [15935/10]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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Housing authorities are responsible for meeting the accommodation needs of households assessed as having a housing need, including homeless persons. Details of specific categories of households, such as homeless, housed each year are not held in my Department for each housing authority.

Annual targets and outputs for the number of homeless households housed in the major urban centres are set out in my Department's Annual Output Statement, in respect of 2007 onwards, which sets out the high level Objectives and Programmes for the Department, the strategies being pursued to meet those objectives and actual and projected outputs. Copies of the Annual Output Statements are available in the Oireachtas library as part of the Department's Annual Report and on the Department's website at www.environ.ie