Written answers

Tuesday, 5 November 2019

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

Homeless Persons Data

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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1176. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of adults and children that exited homelessness in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019, by local authority area in tabular form [45318/19]

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan 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. While responsibility for the provision of accommodation for homeless persons rests with individual housing authorities, the administration of homeless services is organised on a regional basis.

Quarterly performance reports are submitted to my Department by local authorities on a regional basis. These reports provide information on the numbers of adults exiting homelessness to a tenancy.Data is not currently available on the number of children that have exited homelessness to a tenancy.

The table below sets out the number of adults exiting homelessness to a tenancy from 2016 to the end of Quarter 2 2019.

Exits from homelessness (No. of Adults)
2016 2017 2018 To end Q2 2019
Dublin 1,833 3,225 3,572 1,940
Mid East 135 150 153 66
Midlands 185 185 177 73
Mid West 185 309 252 136
North East 49 77 113 49
North West 81 74 93 64
South East 186 179 178 105
South West 297 360 430 241
West 128 170 167 151
Total 3,079 4,729 5,135 2,825

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