Written answers

Thursday, 13 July 2017

Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

Homeless Persons Data

Photo of Mary Lou McDonaldMary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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1275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the current number of homeless families in Dublin city. [33676/17]

Photo of Mary Lou McDonaldMary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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1276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the current number of homeless children in Dublin city. [33677/17]

Photo of Barry CowenBarry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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1282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of households with children that have become newly homeless each month in Dublin since January 2014 to date in 2017. [33710/17]

Photo of Barry CowenBarry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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1284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of homeless households that have progressed from temporary emergency accommodation to permanent housing in the social housing or private housing sector in each month since January 2015 to June 2017 or latest date available for the Dublin region. [33712/17]

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1275, 1276, 1282 and 1284 together.

My Department publishes official homeless reports on a monthly basis, the latest of which is for the month of May 2017. These reports are available on my Department's website at the following link:.

These reports are based on data provided by housing authorities, produced through the Pathway Accommodation & Support System, in relation to State-funded emergency accommodation arrangements that are overseen by housing authorities. These reports capture details of adult individuals on a regional and county basis and also details of the number of family units within the overall homeless population as well as associated dependents.

My Department does not collate data on a monthly basis, as requested, in relation to the number of homeless households that have progressed from temporary emergency accommodation to permanent housing in the social housing or private housing sector. However, I can confirm that there was 1,059 exits from homelessness in the Dublin Region during 2015 and 1,833 during 2016. Figures for 2017 are not yet available.

Details of the number of new homeless families with dependents entering homeless accommodation in the Dublin Region are set out in the following table for each month since the start of 2014:

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2014422528262828413337423319
2015475557636665707870726041
20161258384746472977265676039
20178762776779-------

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