Housing Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 3 December 2013

Tuesday, 3 December 2013

Ceisteanna (249)

Robert Dowds

Ceist:

249. Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of families and single persons in hostel accommodation, by county, in tabular form. [51607/13]

Freagraí scríofa

Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government

While my Department publishes a wide range of housing statistics, data on the number of families and single persons in hostel accommodation are not included within this range. The most recent report available which would include this information related to hostel accommodation is the Central Statistics Office’s special Census report, Homeless Persons in Ireland, which was published in September 2012. This report identified a total of 3,744 people as housed in accommodation defined as emergency, transitional or long-term on Census night, 10 April 2011, with a further 64 individuals sleeping rough.

The report identified that over 40% of the homeless population was enumerated in accommodation which was categorised as emergency. This category includes hostels as well as other forms of emergency accommodation such as B&Bs. Full details of the report are available on the Central Statistics Office’s website.