Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will allow asylum seekers to engage with homeless services at local authority level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9506/23]

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. Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of homeless accommodation and related services rests with individual local authorities.

The International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS), a division of the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY), is responsible for the provision of accommodation and related services to people in the International Protection (asylum) process. My Department has no role in this regard.