Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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1588. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of adults, families and children who spent time in emergency homeless accommodation in 2017; and the average length of time spent in emergency accommodation for individuals and families respectively. [16084/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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My Department’s role in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to underpin the role of housing authorities in addressing homelessness at local level.  Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of accommodation and associated services for homeless persons rests with individual housing authorities. Official homeless reports are published on my Department's website on a monthly basis and can be accessed using the following link:

http://www.housing.gov.ie/housing/homelessness/other/homelessness-data. 

These monthly reports include a breakdown based on accommodation type. Commercial hotels are included within the private emergency accommodation (PEA) category as are other commercially provided emergency accommodation arrangements.  The specific data requested by the Deputy is not available in my Department.

Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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1589. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeless families living in commercial hotels in each month from January 2017 to March 2018, in tabular form. [16086/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Official homeless reports are published on my Department's website on a monthly basis and can be accessed using the following link:

http://www.housing.gov.ie/housing/homelessness/other/homelessness-data. 

These monthly reports include a breakdown based on accommodation type. Commercial hotels are included within the private emergency accommodation (PEA) category as are other commercially provided emergency accommodation arrangements. The Dublin Region Homeless Executive publishes specific information on the numbers of families in hotels in the Dublin region on its website, at www.homelessdublin.ie/reports.