Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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764. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the latest monthly statistics held by his Department, on the number of persons and the number of families with dependants, who are presenting to homeless services in each local authority. [30200/15]

Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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765. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, details of the spending allocated from his Department to each local authority to fund emergency homeless services in the years 2013 to 2015. [30201/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 764 and 765 together.

Data on individuals in emergency accommodation is provided through the Pathway Accommodation & Support System (PASS). 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 also provide details of the breakdown of the individuals and the numbers of families and dependents that are in emergency accommodation. These monthly reports are available on my Department’s website at the following link: www.environ.ie/en/DevelopmentHousing/Housing/SpecialNeeds/HomelessPeople/.

Details of the ‘Section 10’ funding allocations made by my Department to housing authorities for the years 2013 to 2015 are set out, on a regional basis, in the following table. Additional details are provided for 2014 where final drawdown exceeded allocation in a number of regions. Under Section 10 funding arrangements, housing authorities must provide at least 10% of the cost of services from their own resources. Furthermore, housing authorities may also incur additional expenditure on homeless related services outside of the Section 10 funding arrangements.