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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, February 13, 2017

QUESTION NO.35

QUESTION: Councillor M. Ward

• Can  the Council provide a report and answer the following question on behalf of Community Action on Suicide.

• The number and composition of homeless families from each electoral division?

• The reason for becoming homeless?

• The type of accommodation needed per homeless household?

• The area and type of accommodation where families are housed temporarily?

REPLY:

It is not possible to provide homeless statistics on an electoral basis as they are captured on a County at large basis. At the 31^st Jan 2017 the homeless register is as follows:

	Jan
No. Registered Homeless	437
Single Male	192
Single Female	48
Couples	2
Families	195

The reasons for presenting as homeless include the following:

• Notice of eviction/ Notice of termination
• Barring Orders
• Domestic disputes
• Leaving institutional care

The accommodation need of households on the homeless register is a follows:

No. Registered Homeless	437
1 bed	230
2 bed	103
3 bed	88
4 bed	16

Homeless families are accommodated in commercial hotels and hostel accommodation throughout the Dublin Region. Due to the limited number of placements available for family type accommodation the self-accommodation option is offered enabling those families to source their own emergency accommodation in an area/location suitable to their needs. In addition SDCC has 64 rooms in Tallaght Cross and recently the 9 housing units of the former women's refuge in the Respond facility at Cookstown Road has been reopened for homeless women with children.

All homeless emergency accommodation is funded directly through the DRHE. All beds under the control and management of SDCC are fully occupied continuously. All other emergency accommodation within the SDCC administrative area which is managed by the Central Placement Services would also have full occupancy levels.