Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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207. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount his Department paid on bed and breakfast accommodation due to the severe housing crisis in each of the years from 2014 to 2016 to date by county in tabular form. [38811/16]

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. My Department does not fund any service directly but provides funding to lead housing authorities on a regional basis. 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. Under Section 10 funding arrangements, housing authorities must provide at least 10% of the cost of services from their own resources. Housing authorities may also incur additional expenditure on homeless related services outside of the Section 10 funding arrangements. Accordingly, the specific amounts incurred by individual housing authorities in relation to B&B type accommodation are a matter for the housing authorities concerned.

Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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208. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of families who were in bed and breakfast accommodation in September and October 2016 by county in tabular form. [38812/16]

Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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209. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of one parent families that are in bed and breakfast accommodation in September and October 2016 by county in tabular form. [38813/16]

Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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210. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of children that are in bed and breakfast accommodation due to the severe housing crisis in September, October and November 2016 by county in tabular form. [38814/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 208 to 210, inclusive, together.

The official homelessness data reports provided by housing authorities are produced using the Pathway Accommodation & Support System (PASS), the single integrated national data information system on State-funded emergency accommodation arrangements overseen by housing authorities. These reports are published on my Department's website as soon as they are available and can be accessed using the following link:

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The reports contain details of adult individuals and households with dependents placed in emergency accommodation. While the reports contain details of the numbers of individual adults availing of various broad categories of emergency accommodation, they do not provide details specifically in relation to B&B accommodation. That level of detail is not available in my Department and is a matter for the individual housing authorities.