Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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1988. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of Exchequer funding allocated in the past five years and to date in 2017 for homeless services, in tabular form. [37456/17]

Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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1989. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated to each local authority in the past five years and to date in 2017 for the provision of homeless services, in tabular form. [37457/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1988 and 1989 together.

My Department provides current funding to housing authorities towards the operational cost of providing accommodation and related services for homeless persons under Section 10 of the Housing Act 1988.  Under ‘Section 10’ funding arrangements housing authorities must provide at least 10% of the cost of any service they are funding from within their own resources.  Furthermore, housing authorities may also incur additional expenditure on homeless related services outside of the Section 10 funding arrangements.

In addition, the HSE provides funding toward health costs associated with homeless services and funding details in this regards are a matter for the Minister for Health.  

Details of the Section 10 Exchequer funding provided to housing authorities by my Department for the years 2012-2016 and to date in 2017 are set out in the following table.  It should be noted that an amount of  €97.8 million has been provided for homeless services in 2017.

Funding under Section 10 of the Housing Act, 1988