Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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1583. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to create a Dublin housing executive with executive powers and dynamic leadership to address the levels of homelessness in the capital in view of the exclusion of persons on lower income from affordable housing. [16039/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Homeless services are administered at regional level across the country.

The Dublin Region Homeless Executive (DRHE) is provided by Dublin City Council as the lead statutory local authority in the response to homelessness in Dublin and adopts a shared service approach across South Dublin County Council, Fingal County Council and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.  A statutory Management Group is in place for each region, comprised of representatives from the relevant housing authorities and the Health Service Executive.  The Management Group is responsible for considering the need for homeless services and the planning, implementation, funding and co-ordination of such services.  I have no plans to change these regional structures at this time.

The long-term solution to the current homeless crisis is, clearly, to increase the supply of homes for those who need them. Under Rebuilding Ireland, 50,000 new social housing homes will be delivered over the period to 2021, supported by €6 billion in funding.