Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 17 October 2017
598. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the move-ons by tenure type (details supplied) in view of his Department's press statement accompanying the August 2017 homeless figures stating that 134 families moved on from homelessness in that month. [43373/17]
Amharc ar fhreagraMy Department publishes data on a monthly basis regarding the number of homeless families, including dependents, accommodated in all forms of emergency accommodation funded and overseen by housing authorities. Official homeless reports are published on my Department's website and can be accessed using the following link: http://www.housing.gov.ie/housing/homelessness/other/homelessness-data.
In addition, my Department publishes data on a quarterly basis based on the regional quarterly performance reports which sets out the numbers of households and individuals which exited homelessness into sustainable independent tenancies and the type of those tenancies. In this regard, it is worth noting that 2,060 such exits were achieved nationally in the 6 months to June 2017, a 50% increase compared to the equivalent period in 2016 when there were 1,374 such exits. In the Dublin Region alone there were 1,400 sustainable exits in the 6 months to June 2017, a 70% increase on the equivalent period in 2016 when there were 825 such exits. Separate to this, households and individuals may choose to leave emergency accommodation for a variety of reasons, such as returning to live with family or friends, but my Department does not record these 'move-ons' as sustainable exits.
Nationally, in the 6 months to June 2017, HAP related tenancies accounted for 41% of the sustainable exits, local authority lettings 22%, private rented accommodation 19% and AHB lettings/supported accommodation 18%. This level of detail is only available on a quarterly basis and not monthly as requested by the Deputy. The regional quarterly performance reports for Quarter 2 2017 will be available on my website shortly at the link quoted above.
In relation to the 134 families referred to by the Deputy, I am advised by the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive that 34 of these families exited homelessness into social housing (20 local authority and 14 Approved Housing Body homes). The remaining 100 families, who presented and were assessed as homeless during this period, were provided with Homeless HAP housing solutions.
