Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats)
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2. To ask the Taoiseach if persons living in a charity-run homeless hostel will be counted as homeless in the census in 2022. [62207/21]

Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The Central Statistics Office (CSO) re-convened ­ the Homeless Methodology Liaison Group previously used for the purposes of Census 2016 on January 31^st, 2020. This group is made up of an extensive range of organisations that work with homeless persons and who are best placed to advise the complexity of the homeless count. The Group developed an agreed methodology used to identify a person as homeless for the purposes of the Census enumeration.

A list of all the various homeless hostels, charity and local authority accommodations and private emergency accommodations identified will be provided to the CSO from the key stakeholders to support the homeless count for Census 2022. As agreed with the Group, the CSO will count persons staying in these establishments on Census night as homeless for the purposes of the Census enumeration. It is intended that this Group will reconvene in advance of the 2022 Census.