John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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652. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the moneys spent by each local authority to provide emergency accommodation each year for the past three years. [31082/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, 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 emergency accommodation are a matter for those authorities. 

Section 10 Exchequer funding is provided through my Department to housing authorities on a regional basis.  Drawdown for 2014, 2015 and 2016 is set out on a regional basis in the table below.

Funding under Section 10 of the Housing Act, 1988