Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 7 February 2018
300. Deputy Mary Butler asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of persons in emergency accommodation for longer than six months in Waterford city and county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6112/18]
Amharc ar fhreagraMy Department publishes reports on a monthly basis regarding the number of individuals utilising emergency accommodation arrangements that are overseen by housing authorities. These reports include a breakdown of the homeless adult population. These 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.
These monthly reports do not include details with regard to those homeless longer than six-months.
Separately to the monthly reports, housing authorities submit quarterly reports to my Department at the regional level. For the purposes of the regional administration of homeless services Waterford is included in the South-East Region along with the counties of Carlow, Kilkenny, Tipperary and Wexford. The most recently submitted report to my Department indicates that on the last date of 2017, a total of 193 adult individuals were in emergency accommodation for longer than six months, consecutively or continuously, in the South-East Region.
