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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, March 12, 2018

QUESTION NO.4

QUESTION: Councillor P. Foley

How many homeless families are being accommodated in hotels or other temporary accommodation? How many children under the age of 18 are included in those families?

REPLY:

At the end of February there were 201 families registered as homeless in South Dublin administrative area.   

105 were accommodated in family Hubs (60 in Tallaght Cross, 36 Abberley Court, 9 Cuan Alainn) and 96 families were accommodated in other emergency and hotel accommodation across the Region.   Given the current resources available to the homeless section it is not possible to report on the number of children included with those families as it would involve a detailed manual search of the records of each and every family involved.