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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, November 09, 2015

QUESTION NO 19.

QUESTION: Councillor E. Ó Broin

To ask the Chief Executive  to provide a report detailing the total number of children from the South Dublin County Council housing list living in emergency accommodation across the Dublin region on the first and last working day of each month since January 2015. 

REPLY:

Homelessness is dealt with on a regional basis by the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive with Dublin City Council as the lead Authority.  They manage the Central Placement Service on an agency basis.

The Council does not keep seperate details of adults and children in a manner possible to report on without undertaking a large amount of work amnually on extraction of the information requested. Below is information that the Council has extracted on data we have avaiable on family homelessness for the County.

Breakdown of households listed as Homeless from 1st January – 30th September, 2015

  JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPT
Total on List  233 244 266 287 294 252 214 227 248
Single Male 140 143 154 156 159 133 131 134 148
Single Female 26 29 27 30 32 31 31 31 44
Couples 7 7 6 6 6 4 4 6 6
Families 60 65 79 95 97 84 33 56 50

 

No of families assessed as imminently at risk

 

  Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July August Sept
  36 21 12 11 31 47 36 45 43