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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, September 21, 2015

QUESTION NO.4

QUESTION: Councillor S. Holland

 To ask the Chief Executive how much,  this year to date, has been spent on emergency accomodation?  What is the total budget allowed for this?

REPLY:

Dublin City Council is the lead Authority which manages the Central Placement Service on an agency basis and South Dublin County Council pays a contribution in respect of all expenditure on homeless services.  In 2014, a contribution of approx. €1.19 million was made to the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive (Dublin City Council).  There is provision for €1.5 million in the 2015 Budget for Homeless Services and to date South Dublin have received no invoices for expenditure in 2015 to date.