Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the level of Exchequer funding provided for homeless services between 2006 and to date in 2016 in tabular form. [29308/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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My Department provides current funding to housing authorities towards the cost of providing accommodation and related services for homeless persons under Section 10 of the Housing Act 1988.

Under ‘Section 10’ funding arrangements, housing authorities must provide at least 10% of the cost of any service they are funding, from within their own resources. Furthermore, housing authorities may also incur additional expenditure on homeless related services outside of the Section 10 funding arrangements.

Details of the Section 10 Exchequer funding provided to housing authorities by my Department for the years 2006 to date in 2016 are set out in the following table. Budget 2016 confirmed a national budget of €70 million in Exchequer funding under Section 10 arrangements; recoupments amounting to some €40 million have been made to housing authorities to date.

Exchequer Funding provided under Section 10 of the Housing Act 1988