Rory Hearne (Dublin North-West, Social Democrats)
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1624. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the Government’s plan to end child, family and individual homelessness by 2030, as per the Government’s declared commitments under the Lisbon Declaration signed in 2021. [43589/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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Supporting individuals and families experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness is a priority for Government. Critical to addressing homelessness is increasing the supply of housing.

A record level of capital investment is being provided in 2025 with overall capital funding available of almost €6.8 billion to support the delivery of social, affordable and cost rental homes. Housing supply has increased significantly since the publication of Housing for All in 2021. In particular, 32,787 social homes have been delivered through Build, Acquisition and Leasing schemes from 2022 to 2024. This increased supply of social housing is supporting the increased allocation of homes to households on the social housing waiting list, including households in emergency accommodation.

Ireland signed the Lisbon Declaration in June 2021, which committed all signatories to work towards ending homelessness by 2030. The Government reaffirmed Ireland’s commitment to the Lisbon Declaration in the new Programme for Government.

The new Programme for Government also sets out a number of additional measures which the Government will take to address homelessness, including commitments to providing emergency accommodation for everyone who needs it with special supports for children impacted by homelessness and focussing social housing allocations on getting families out of long-term homelessness. The Programme for Government also includes a commitment to ensuring a holistic, cross departmental approach to homelessness prevention. This is being considered in the context of the new Housing Plan.

Funding of €303 million is available for the delivery of homeless services in 2025. This funding supports the provision of emergency accommodation and wrap-around supports. In addition, capital funding of €25m will support the delivery of high quality transitional and emergency accommodation for individuals experiencing homelessness. A key focus of local authorities and their service delivery partners is to support households in emergency accommodation to exit emergency accommodation to a tenancy.