Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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1177. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of emergency accommodation per night per household by local authority area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45319/19]

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 emergency accommodation for homeless persons rests with individual housing authorities.

My Department does not fund any homeless service directly but provides funding to housing authorities towards these costs. Under the funding arrangements, housing authorities must provide at least 10% of the cost of services from their own resources. Housing authorities may also incur additional expenditure on homeless related services outside of these funding arrangements with my Department. Therefore, the exact spend by housing authorities on homeless services, as well as the types of accommodation, are a matter for individual housing authorities in consultation with the Management Group of the relevant regional joint Homeless Consultative Forum.

Performance and Financial reports from each of the homeless regions, setting out data and expenditure on homeless services, including emergency accommodation, are published on my Department's website at the following link: /housing/homelessness/other/homelessness-data.