COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 23rd, 2017

QUESTION NO.20

QUESTION: Councillor F. Timmons

To ask for a full report on the current homeless list? how many people sleeping rough?  How many in hotels and emergency accommodation by area etc?

REPLY:

	August 2017
Number of Registered homeless	465
Single Male	210
Single Female	50
Couples	11
Families	194

Killininny House offers supported temporary accommodation for 21 single men and is managed by the Peter McVerry Trust who have additional step down accommodation around the county which can cater for up to 14 individuals at any one time.

Hubs are provided at Tallaght X (64) Abberley (37) and Glean no Horna (9).

Also 24 older Homeless persons are housed at Riversdale House.

SDCC is currently seeking additional family hubs and supported temporary accommodation in the County.

All other Hotel & B&B accommodation is operated through the Central Placement Services.   

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 individuals and families at risk from becoming homelessness.

The Council also operates an outreach service and multi-agency approach to address rough sleepers.  There is a 'rough sleepers' count scheduled to take place in November/December.