Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the records that are kept of families that have had to seek emergency housing provision in Garda stations throughout the country in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29490/18]

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, consequently the specific data sought in the Question is not available in my Department and is a matter for the relevant housing authorities. 

The DRHE has informed my Department that additional contingency accommodation has been introduced in the Dublin region to avoid the need for any family to present to a Garda station.