Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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432. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of overall funding which was recouped in 2015 by local authorities to pay for emergency homeless accommodation and other homeless services. [8099/16]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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My Department does not fund any homeless services directly, but provides funding to housing authorities towards the operational costs of homeless accommodation and related services under section 10 of the Housing Act 1988. Under section 10 funding arrangements, housing authorities must provide at least 10% of the cost of such services from their own resources. Furthermore, housing authorities may also incur additional expenditure on homeless related services outside of the Section 10 funding arrangements and, also, the Health Service Executive is responsible for the provision of healthcare and social supports for homeless persons, managing a significant annual budget for direct homeless services, including emergency accommodation facilities. Therefore, the exact amounts spent by housing authorities on homeless services are a matter for those authorities.

Funding under section 10 is provided through my Department to housing authorities on a regional basis. A breakdown of section 10 funding recouped to housing authorities in 2015, on a regional basis, is set out in the following table.

2015 funding recoupedunder section 10 of the Housing Act 1988