Mick Barry
Question:108. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of homeless persons categorised as homeless for a period of 12 months or more. [1458/19]
View answerTuesday, 15 January 2019
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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 housing authorities in addressing homelessness at local level. Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of homeless accommodation and related services rests with individual housing authorities.
While data in the format sought is not collected by my Department, quarterly performance reports provide information at the end of each quarter of time spent in emergency accommodation for periods of less or more than 6 months. The most recent reports show that at the end of September 2018, 43% of adults recorded as in emergency accommodation at that time, were resident there for less than 6 months, and 57% were resident for more than 6 months.
The performance reports also provide details of the numbers of adults who exited from homelessness into an independent tenancy. In 2017, 4,729 adults exited homeliness and it is expected that this figure will have been exceeded in 2018.