Violet-Anne Wynne (Clare, Sinn Fein)
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25. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons availing of homeless services in County Clare; and the steps he plans to take to reduce this number. [17663/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Supporting individuals and families experiencing homelessness is a priority for this Government. The Programme for Government ‘Our Shared Future’ commits to reducing and preventing homelessness and provides detail on how the Government will approach this challenge.

Homeless services are overseen at regional level and Clare County Council is part of the Mid-West Region. The latest Homelessness Report for May 2020, which is available on my Department's website at the following link: www.housing.gov.ie/housing/homelessness/other/homelessness-data, indicates that there were 58 adults in emergency accommodation in Clare. Data on the number of dependants in emergency accommodation are published on a regional basis only. The Report indicates that there were 89 dependants in emergency accommodation in the Mid-West region in May.