Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeless children and adults, per county. [66792/25]

James Browne (Wexford, 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 local level. Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of accommodation and related services for homeless persons rests with individual local authorities.

My Department currently gathers and publishes data on a monthly basis on the number of homeless persons accommodated in emergency accommodation funded and overseen by local authorities. These reports are based on data provided by local authorities, produced through the Pathway Accommodation & Support System (PASS).

The monthly homelessness report includes details of individuals, families and the dependants of these families who accessed emergency accommodation during the relevant count week of the month in question. The most recently published data is in respect of September 2025. The reports are collated on a regional basis and are available on my Department's website at the following link: and are also published to the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation's open data portal .