John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount being spent on a monthly basis on emergency accommodation in Dublin from 2011 to 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32361/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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My Department's role in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to underpin the role of housing authorities in addressing homelessness at local level. Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of accommodation and related services for homeless persons rests with individual housing authorities. The purposes for which housing authorities may incur expenditure in addressing homelessness are prescribed in Section 10 of the Housing Act 1988. Housing authorities provide additional funding from their own resources. Therefore, the detail requested is not available in my Department and would be a matter for the relevant housing authorities.

Details of the 'Section 10' Exchequer funding provided by my Department to the Dublin Region towards the operational costs of homeless accommodation and related services for the years 2011 to 2015 are set out in the following table. Furthermore, to date in 2016, payments amounting to approximately €39 million have been processed under Section 10 arrangements in respect of the Dublin Region.

Funding Provided under Section 10 of the Housing Act 1988