Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of funding provided to each local authority for emergency homeless services in 2015 and 2016 to date, in tabular form. [39300/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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My Department does not fund any homeless service 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 services from their own resources. Furthermore, housing authorities may also incur additional expenditure on homeless related services outside of the ‘Section 10’ funding arrangements. Therefore, the exact amounts spent by housing authorities on homeless services are a matter for those authorities. ‘Section 10’ Exchequer funding is provided through my Department to housing authorities on a regional basis. Drawdown for 2015 and to date in 2016 is set out on a regional basis in the table.