Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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867. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent by each local authority on emergency homeless accommodation in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11308/25]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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868. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount allocated or drawn down by each local authority for spending on emergency homeless accommodation in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [11309/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 867 and 868 together.

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 housing authorities in addressing homelessness at local level. Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of homeless services rests with individual housing authorities.

My Department does not fund any homeless service directly but provides funding to housing authorities towards the operational costs of homeless accommodation and related services under Section 10 of the Housing Act, 1988. Under Exchequer funding arrangements, housing authorities must provide at least 10% of the cost of services from their own resources. Furthermore, housing authorities may also incur additional expenditure on homeless related services outside of the Exchequer funding arrangements provided by my Department.

A homelessness consultative forum has been established in each of the nine homeless regions in accordance with Chapter 6 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2009. Decisions on the range of homeless services, and the exact amount spend on these services, including emergency accommodation in each region are a matter for individual housing authorities in consultation with the Management Group of the relevant regional joint Homelessness Consultative Forum.

Financial reports from each of the nine homeless regions, setting out expenditure on homeless services including emergency accommodation, are published on my Department's website at the following link: www.housing.gov.ie/housing/homelessness/other/homelessness-data