Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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1591. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if homeless families with young children are being allocated access to emergency accommodation after 8 p.m.; the number of times this happened in 2018; his plans to address this issue with particular reference to the risk to children who have no place of safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16130/18]

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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1592. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if homeless families in Dublin have been referred to Garda stations late at night due to an inadequate supply of housing and emergency accommodation; his plans to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16131/18]

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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1593. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans in place to provide a place of safety for homeless families that are not allocated emergency accommodation until late at night and that have nowhere safe to stay while they await emergency accommodation placement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16132/18]

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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1594. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures in place to provide for the protection and welfare of homeless children whose families are not allocated emergency accommodation until late in the evening and that have nowhere safe to stay while they await emergency accommodation placement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16133/18]

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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1595. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the large number of families that are allocated emergency accommodation on a one night only basis (details supplied); his plans to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16134/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1591 to 1595, inclusive, together.

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.  The matter raised by the Deputy is an operational issue in the day-to-day delivery of services and is a matter for the relevant housing authorities.