Fiona O'Loughlin (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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1707. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons accommodated in hotels and bed and breakfasts by each local authority in each of the years 2011 to 2016 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36544/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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My Department does not specifically collate data on the utilisation of hotel accommodation on a national basis.  However, my Department does publish data on a monthly basis regarding the number of homeless families, including dependents, accommodated in all forms of emergency accommodation funded and overseen by housing authorities.  Official homeless reports are published on my Department's website  and can be accessed using the following link: .

These reports are based on data provided by housing authorities and produced through the Pathway Accommodation & Support System (PASS).  These reports capture details of individuals utilising State-funded emergency accommodation on a regional and county basis, arrangements that are overseen by housing authorities.  

In the Dublin area, which accounts for some 85% of family homelessness, the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive (DRHE) publishes data in relation to homelessness, including in relation to the numbers of families accommodated in commercial hotels. This information can be accessed on the DRHE website at the following link: .

Fiona O'Loughlin (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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1708. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of children accommodated by each local authority in each of the years 2011 to 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36545/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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It is presumed that the Question is referring to children in emergency accommodation.  The Pathway Accommodation and Support System (PASS) was implemented nationally in 2014 as a national information and management system for homeless services that are overseen by housing authorities.  My Department collates PASS data from lead housing authorities on a monthly basis and these monthly homeless reports are published on my Department's website and can be accessed using the following link: .

Prior to the introduction of PASS, data on the number of homeless households, and the composition of those households, was not quantified nationally on an on-going basis. Consequently, the details requested in relation to 2011 to 2013 are not available in my Department.