Dessie Ellis
Question:319. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of children to date in homeless accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23701/21]
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Questions (319, 321)
Dessie Ellis
Question:321. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of persons on the homeless housing list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23703/21]
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 319 and 321 together.
My Department publishes a detailed monthly report on homelessness, based on data provided by housing authorities. The Report outlines details of individuals utilising State-funded emergency accommodation arrangements that are overseen by housing authorities. The Reports are available on my Department's website at the following link: https://www.gov.ie/en/collection/80ea8-homelessness-data/ and are also published to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform's open data portal https://data.gov.ie/.
The most recent homelessness data is in respect of March 2021 and was published by my Department on 30 April 2021. The total number of homeless individuals was 8,060. Amongst this number, there were 913 families in emergency accommodation in the March report, with 2,166 dependants associated with these families. This represents the lowest number of dependants in emergency accommodation since April 2016 and a 35.4% reduction over the past year.