Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that his Department’s monthly homeless report no longer provides data on single parent family homelessness; and if he will ensure that all future monthly homeless reports include a breakdown of family homelessness by single and two parent families. [5301/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department publishes data on a monthly basis regarding the number of homeless persons accommodated in all forms of emergency accommodation funded and overseen by housing authorities. These reports are based on data provided by housing authorities and are produced through the Pathway Accommodation & Support System (PASS), the single integrated national data information system on State-funded emergency accommodation arrangements overseen by housing authorities. PASS is an active case and bed management and client support system and is administrated by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive (DRHE).

From July 2021, all reports have been run from an updated version of the PASS system. My Department was made aware at the time of an issue that arose as a result of the update. Although the system continues to accurately allow reporting of individuals, families and dependants in emergency accommodation, it is no longer allows for the separation of the number of single parent families from the total number of families. The DRHE has been working actively with the developer of the system to fix this issue. Engagement continues between my Department and the DRHE on this matter, and this data will be restored to the monthly homelessness report after an appropriate fix has been implemented.