Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the membership of the Dublin Joint Homelessness Consultative Forum from 2019 to 2021 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6277/22]

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 role of local authorities in addressing homelessness at a local level. While statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of homeless accommodation and related services rests with individual local authorities, the administration of homeless services is organised on a regional basis with a lead authority in place for each region.

In accordance with Chapter 6 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2009, a homelessness consultative forum has been established in each region. Membership of the Dublin Joint Homelessness Consultative Forum currently comprises representatives from the following:

- Dublin City Council

- Dublin Region Homeless Executive

- Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council

- South Dublin County Council

- Fingal County Council

- HSE, CHO 9

- HSE, Social Inclusion

- HSE, CHO 7

- Dublin Homeless Network

- TUSLA

- The Probation Service

- Irish Prison Service

- Threshold

- City of Dublin Education and Training Board

- Peter McVerry Trust

Changes in membership of the Dublin Joint Homelessness Consultative Forum is a matter for the Dublin Region Homeless Executive.