Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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322. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons in emergency accommodation in counties Cavan, Monaghan and Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42682/19]

Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons registered as homeless by county in tabular form; when they were registered as homeless; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42701/19]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 322 and 323 together.

Addressing homelessness is an absolute priority for the Government.  Rebuilding Ireland, the Government’s Action Plan on Housing and Homelessness, is designed to increase the delivery of housing across all tenures to help individuals and families meet their housing needs and address homelessness. The plan focuses on increasing the delivery of social housing, with a target of delivering 50,000 social housing homes and 87,000 other social housing supports by 2021.  In 2018, 8,000 new social homes were delivered nationally and this year, a further 10,000 new social homes will be delivered.Budget 2020 has increased funding available to local authorities to provide homeless accommodation and related services to €166m, an increase of €20m on this years budget of €146m.

My Department publishes a monthly report on homelessness. The monthly report is based on data provided by housing authorities and produced through the Pathway Accommodation & Support System (PASS).  The report captures details of individuals utilising State-funded emergency accommodation arrangements that are overseen by housing authorities. Official homeless reports are published on my Department's website on a monthly basis and can be accessed using the following link: .

These reports do not contain data relating to when a person registered as homeless.  While these monthly reports include a breakdown of adults at county level, details in relation to dependants are only available on a regional level in my Department; however, further information in relation to dependants may be obtained from individual housing authorities.

The following table sets out the numbers of adults and dependants in emergency accommodation in August 2019, the most recent month for which data is available.