Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 3 March 2015
546. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of the vacant 655 units that were identified in the homelessness summit, held December 2014, that have been provided and made available. [8916/15]
View answer547. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of Dublin City Council's 657 vacant properties that were scheduled for demolition in the homelessness summit strategy, held in December 2014, that have been refurbished; and if he will identify these properties. [8919/15]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 546 and 547 together.
On 4 December 2014, I hosted a special Summit on Homelessness to reaffirm the Government's commitment to end involuntary long-term homelessness by the end of 2016. A number of actions arising from the Summit were considered at the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Social Policy and Public Service Reform on 8 December and were then formalised into an Action Plan to Address Homelessness which was noted by the Government at its meeting on 9 December 2014. A copy of this action plan is available on my Department’s website at the following link http://www.environ.ie/en/DevelopmentHousing/Housing/SpecialNeeds/HomelessPeople/.
Progress in implementing this plan is overseen by the Cabinet Committee on Social Policy and Public Service Reform. A progress report was considered by the Cabinet Committee at its meeting on 23 February and a copy of this report is available on my Department’s website at the above link.
