Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 June 2024
246. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the women who are being accommodated in women’s refuges throughout the State are being recorded in the homeless figures. [27193/24]
View answerMy Department currently gathers and publishes data on a monthly basis on the number of homeless persons accommodated in emergency accommodation funded and overseen by local authorities. These reports are based on data provided by local authorities, produced through the Pathway Accommodation & Support System (PASS).
The monthly homelessness report includes details of individuals, families and the dependants of these families who accessed emergency accommodation during the relevant count week of the month in question. The most recently published data is in respect of April 2024. The reports are collated on a regional basis and are available on my Department's website at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/80ea8-homelessness-data/ and are also published to the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform's open data portal www.data.gov.ie/ .
The operation of refuges is under the remit of Cuan, the new Domestic, Sexual and Gender Based Violence (DSGBV) Agency, under the remit of the Department of Justice. The provision of accommodation in refuges is distinct from homeless emergency accommodation and as such, individuals in refuges are not classified as homeless and are not included in the statistics prepared by my Department.
