Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 12 July 2016
337. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households, the number of adults and the number of families with dependants that became newly homeless in 2015; and the number that have become newly homeless in 2016 on a county basis in tabular form. [21162/16]
View answerMy 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 accommodation and related services for homeless persons rests with individual housing authorities.
The official homelessness data provided by housing authorities are produced through the Pathway Accommodation & Support System (PASS). These data capture details of individuals and households, including dependants, utilising State-funded emergency accommodation arrangements that are overseen by housing authorities. Quarterly reports from lead housing authorities are published on my Department's website as soon as these are available. In addition, lead housing authorities provide monthly reports on homelessness which identify the number of people utilising State-funded emergency accommodation on a regional and county basis and also broken down by the number of families and dependants; my Department collates this information into monthly homeless reports. The specific data sought in the Question are not available in my Department. However, both the quarterly and monthly reports are available on my Department’s website at the following link:
http://www.environ.ie/housing/homelessness/other/homelessness-data.
