Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding provided by the Health Service Executive to bodies working in the area of homelessness in each year for 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and the amounts projected for 2013 subdivided into HSE area; and if expended on social inclusion children and families or other objectives. [17346/13]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Environment, Community and Local Government and local authorities have statutory responsibility for the provision of homelessness services in Ireland in line with the National Homeless Strategy, ''The Way Home 2008-2013' and 'Pathway to Home'.

Local authorities identify and address the level of need through a range of community based accommodation options and related housing supports, and the HSE and its partner agencies arrange health and personal social care supports appropriate to the individual service user's needs within this structure.

The allocation of the HSE's homeless budget comes within the remit of the HSE and is allocated based on identified needs in line with the overall financial constraints that the HSE operates within.

The specific information requested for each of the years in question is not readily available. However I have asked the Health Service Executive to supply this information to me and I will forward it to the Deputy as soon as possible.