Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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242. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown by county of the number of temporary accommodation beds provided; the number of these that are currently occupied; the number of persons who have sought temporary accommodation by county in the past three months; the number of persons currently registered as homeless by county; the funding provided to local authorities and other services in order to provide temporary accommodation on a county basis over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48668/14]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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Data on homeless households in emergency accommodation is provided through the Pathway Accommodation & Support System (PASS). Quarterly reports from lead housing authorities are being published on my Department's website as soon as these are available. In addition, lead housing authorities provide monthly reports on homelessness which identify the number of people utilising State-funded emergency accommodation on a regional and county basis. These monthly reports are also available on my Department’s website at.

Households that are qualified for social housing support are recorded by housing authorities through social housing assessments. When assessing the housing need of an applicant household for social housing support, each housing authority records, among other information, details on the household’s current tenure such as whether they are living with parents, relatives/friendsor homeless. This information is reflected in the statutory summary of Social Housing Assessments which provides details of the number of households qualified for social housing support and on housing authority waiting lists. The latest summary was carried out at 7 May 2013, in accordance with Section 21 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, and the results are available on my Department’s website at

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Details of the Section 10 funding provided by my Department to housing authorities on a regional basis for the years 2009 to 2013 and the allocations for 2014 are set out in the table below.

Funding Provided under Section 10 of the Housing Act 1988