Homeless Persons Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 13 July 2017

Thursday, 13 July 2017

Questions (1275, 1276, 1282, 1284)

Mary Lou McDonald

Question:

1275. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the current number of homeless families in Dublin city. [33676/17]

Mary Lou McDonald

Question:

1276. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the current number of homeless children in Dublin city. [33677/17]

Barry Cowen

Question:

1282. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of households with children that have become newly homeless each month in Dublin since January 2014 to date in 2017. [33710/17]

Barry Cowen

Question:

1284. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of homeless households that have progressed from temporary emergency accommodation to permanent housing in the social housing or private housing sector in each month since January 2015 to June 2017 or latest date available for the Dublin region. [33712/17]

Written answers

Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

I propose to take Questions Nos. 1275, 1276, 1282 and 1284 together.

My Department publishes official homeless reports on a monthly basis, the latest of which is for the month of May 2017. These reports are available on my Department's website at the following link: http://www.housing.gov.ie/housing/homelessness/other/homelessness-data.

These reports are based on data provided by housing authorities, produced through the Pathway Accommodation & Support System, in relation to State-funded emergency accommodation arrangements that are overseen by housing authorities. These reports capture details of adult individuals on a regional and county basis and also details of the number of family units within the overall homeless population as well as associated dependents.

My Department does not collate data on a monthly basis, as requested, in relation to the number of homeless households that have progressed from temporary emergency accommodation to permanent housing in the social housing or private housing sector. However, I can confirm that there was 1,059 exits from homelessness in the Dublin Region during 2015 and 1,833 during 2016. Figures for 2017 are not yet available.

Details of the number of new homeless families with dependents entering homeless accommodation in the Dublin Region are set out in the following table for each month since the start of 2014:

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2014	42	25	28	26	28	28	41	33	37	42	33	19
2015	47	55	57	63	66	65	70	78	70	72	60	41
2016	125	83	84	74	64	72	97	72	65	67	60	39
2017	87	62	77	67	79	-	-	-	-	-	-	-