My Department provides current funding to housing authorities towards the cost of providing accommodation and related services for homeless persons under Section 10 of the Housing Act 1988. Under Section 10 funding arrangements, housing authorities must provide at least 10% of the cost of any service they are funding, from within their own resources. Furthermore, housing authorities may also incur additional expenditure on homeless related services outside of the Section 10 funding arrangements. Therefore, the exact amounts spent by housing authorities on particular categories of service are a matter for those authorities.
Section 10 funding is provided by my Department to housing authorities on a regional basis. Details of the such funding provided to housing authorities by my Department for the years 2015 and 2016 are set out in the following table. Budget 2017 confirmed a national budget of €98 million in Exchequer funding under Section 10 arrangements and recoupments exceeding €30 million have been made to housing authorities to date. The funding needs of the various regions will be kept under review on an on-going basis, taking account of known and emerging costs of services, and my Department has provided reassurance to housing authorities in this regard.
Funding under Section 10 of the Housing Act, 1988
Region
|
2015
|
2016
|
Dublin
|
€48,270,201
|
€68,627,075
|
Mid-East
|
€1,716,245
|
€2,746,651
|
Midland
|
€805,995
|
€1,109,748
|
Mid-West
|
€3,499,898
|
€3,500,000
|
North-East
|
€996,849
|
€1,493,336
|
North-West
|
€387,643
|
€411,946
|
South-East
|
€2,394,619
|
€3,041,840
|
South-West
|
€5,000,686
|
€5,375,609
|
West
|
€1,698,834
|
€2,370,295
|
Total
|
€64,770,970
|
€88,676,500
|