Written answers
Wednesday, 20 June 2018
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
Homeless Persons Data
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeless families in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27093/18]
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 related services for homeless persons rests with individual housing authorities.
Monthly homelessness data reports are produced by housing authorities using the Pathway Accommodation & Support System (PASS), the single integrated national data information system on State-funded emergency accommodation arrangements overseen by housing authorities. My Department collates this information into monthly national homeless reports, which are available on my Department’s website at the following link:
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While these reports identify the number of adults utilising State-funded emergency accommodation at the county level, details in relation to families and dependants is only available on a regional basis; consequently the specific data sought in the Question is not available in my Department and is a matter for the relevant housing authority, in this case Kildare County Council.
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