COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, September 26, 2016

QUESTION NO.22

QUESTION: Councillor C. O'Connor

To ask the Chief Executive to present an updated report on his efforts to deal with the homeless situation in each of our electoral areas and will he give details of the numbers which have presented to the Council's Homeless Unit over the past 3 months.

REPLY:

The Homeless Services Section operates a daily Clinic Service in in the County Hall  from 10am to 12pm and 2pm to 4pm servicing the SDCC area. The number of presentations for the last three months are as follows:

	Jun	Jul	Aug
Total Presentations	596	628	695
Unique Individuals/Family	273	296	311
No. of New Presentations	143	177	168
No. of Repeats Presentations	453	451	527

During the same three month period the following allocations to persons on the Homeless Register:

	Jun	Jul	Aug
No. Allocations	13	10	15
Social Housing	4	3	6
AHB	3	2	1
Homeless HAP	6	5	8

At the 31^st August there are 410 applicants included on the Homeless Register. This included 64 families accommodated at Tallaght Cross.

SDCC operates a waiting list for Tallaght Cross for all families within our service and as families moving on they are re-placed by those families on the list.

South Dublin County Council currently have 28 families in two hotel establishments in the Tallaght Area. All other Hotel & B&B accommodation is operated through the Central Placement Services and is not in the control of this local authority, and as a result the service can only offer the accommodation that is available on any given day. 

All families included on the Homeless Register are notified to the Focus Family HAT who appoint a Case Worker to further assist those families.

SDCC is also working with Focus Ireland on the HAP Preventative Measure to assist and prevent those families at risk from becoming homelessness.

The Council also operates an outreach service and multi-agency approach to address rough sleepers.