Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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158. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the measures he is putting in place with local authorities to begin homelessness prevention with families when a valid notice to quit has been received giving the family the requisite notice for the end of a tenancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6215/17]

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.

Where a tenant finds that their tenancy is coming to an end and they are entitled to social housing support, they should contact their housing authority in order to access the supports available to them. Should the tenant wish to try to sustain their existing tenancy, there are tenancy sustainment initiatives in place. These include: the National Tenancy Sustainment Framework operated by the Department of Social Protection for Rent Supplement clients; the Tenancy Sustainment Protocol operated by Threshold in conjunction with the relevant housing authority and the Department of Social Protection; and the Family Support Service operated by Focus Ireland, which has tenancy sustainment as its specific aim.