Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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415. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps that can be taken to meet the health and housing needs of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21655/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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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 statutory role of local authorities in addressing homelessness at the local level.

Under the Housing Act 1988 it is a matter for each local authority to determine whether a person is regarded as homeless; section 2 of the Act sets out the requirements in this regard. The provision of health services is a matter for my colleague the Minister for Health.