Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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1087. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reporting requirements that are in place for local authorities, in relation to the break-down of their spending on costs of housing and emergency housing services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22367/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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As part of a robust monitoring and reporting framework, local authorities report to my Department on a regular basis on outputs and expenditure under the various housing programmes. The expenditure details under each housing subhead, as set out in the Revised Estimates for Public Services, are provided by my Department to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

In the context of the implementation of the Social Housing Strategy, ambitious targets have been set for local authorities for the period 2015 – 2017 with the announcement on 1 April 2015 of over €1.5 billion to be invested in a combination of building, purchase and leasing schemes, to accommodate 25% of those currently on the social housing waiting lists and with €312m approved for the first tranche of building 1,700 social housing units.

Specifically in relation to expenditure on homelessness, delegated funding arrangements provide for overall homelessness funding allocations to be aligned to specific categories of expenditure to reflect housing-led approaches and to ensure that prevention, sustainment and resettlement are the underlying imperatives in service delivery. Performance reports have been incorporated within these arrangements and these have been designed so as to facilitate lead housing authorities in providing details about the actions being taken in addressing homelessness in the region, including the actions being taken to implement the housing-led approach and to meet the target for ending long-term homelessness.