Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 22 November 2016
265. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will include figures provided from Tusla of adults and children in domestic violence refuges in his Department's monthly homeless reports. [36271/16]
Amharc ar fhreagraResponsibility for the provision, funding and oversight of services to support victims of domestic violence, including refuges, rests with Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, under the aegis of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs.
The official monthly homeless data published by my Department is provided by housing authorities via the Pathway Accommodation & Support System (PASS), the single integrated national data information system on the homeless emergency accommodation arrangements that are overseen by housing authorities. It therefore captures details of individuals utilising State-funded emergency accommodation arrangements that are overseen by housing authorities only. It does not include clients of domestic violence refuges, and any relevant data compilation and management in relation to those clients is a matter for Tusla in the first instance.
