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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, January 09, 2017

QUESTION NO.19

QUESTION: Councillor F. Timmons

To ask for a report into Homeless emergency Hostel places are there in SDCC how many beds are available in the SDCC area? How many for males and how many for females?

REPLY:

On a night by night basis the beds allocated to SDCC are 15 male beds and 4 female beds.

As part of the winter initiative 6 month STA beds were allocated to SDCC. We placed 3 females and 2 males into these beds.

In addition there are 6 month placements accommodating 21 single men in Killininney House and an additional 9 placements as step down/transitional in Glenn na Horna in Springfield managed by the Peter McVerry Trust.