COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, November 08, 2021

MOTION NO. 9

MOTION: Councillor Patrick Pearse Holohan

This Council calls on the DHRE to remove the requirement of a local area connection when applicants are trying to gain access to emergency services in the homeless sector.

REPORT:

Each Local Authority has a statutory responsibility with respect to the provision of emergency accommodation for households who find themselves homeless in their functional area and are funded under section 10 of the Housing Act 1988 to provide homeless services within that area.

When the Council and/or the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive (DRHE) become aware of any households or individuals who become homeless from an area outside of the Dublin region, our outreach services and our frontline teams will support and assist them in engaging with the local authority in the area from which they became homeless.  In such circumstances, the Council and the DRHE work with other local authorities to facilitate a temporary placement while a longer-term accommodation provision is being facilitated there.  In exceptional cases where a household or individual is unable or not likely to return to the County they were last accommodated in and their homelessness is likely to be prolonged, longer-term placements may be made in the Dublin region.  

Neither the Council nor the DRHE are in a position, outside of certain exceptional cases, to provide accommodation on an ongoing basis for homeless households or individuals originating from other local authority areas.