Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will request a report from Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council on the supported temporary accommodation projects currently in place for persons to assist them prior to being placed in a housing assistance payment tenancy; if he will provide this report to Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23188/17]

Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will request a report from Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council on the measures in place to assist persons in avoiding homelessness prior to their tenancies ending; if he will provide this report to Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23189/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 238 and 239 together.

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 homeless services, including accommodation, rests with individual housing authorities.  While my Department engages with housing authorities on a regular basis in relation to housing and homelessness matters, the issues raised in the Questions are a matter for the relevant housing authorities, in this case Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council, and information can be obtained from those authorities directly.