Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 26 February 2026
373. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the lead authority performance reports for Quarter 3 and Quarter 4 2025 will be published; and to give a commitment to include new child presentations into homelessness in these reports including a cumulative figure for the period from 2016 to Quarter 4 2025. [15733/26]
Amharc ar fhreagraMy Department’s role in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to underpin the role of local authorities in addressing homelessness at local level. Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of accommodation and related services for homeless persons rests with individual local authorities.
My 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 report also includes the number of adults in emergency accommodation by age band and region. The most recently published data is in respect of December 2025. The reports are collated on a regional basis and are available on my Department's website at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/department-of-housing-local-government-and-heritage/collections/homelessness-data and are also published to the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation's open data portal data.gov.ie/.
My Department also publishes quarterly Progress Reports which are based on quarterly Performance Reports submitted by the nine regional lead authorities responsible for the administration of homeless services at local level. These quarterly Performance Reports include information on presentations to homeless services by single adult and family households who entered emergency accommodation as well as details on those exiting emergency accommodation into tenancies and the duration of stay in emergency accommodation. The most recent published data is in respect of the Q4 2025 Progress Report and is available on my Department’s website at the following link:www.gov.ie/en/department-of-housing-local-government-and-heritage/publications/homeless-quarterly-progress-report-q4-2025/
Full reconciliation of the Quarter 3 and Quarter 4 Performance Report data is ongoing and it is expected that they will be published in the coming weeks.
The Housing Plan, Delivering Homes Building Communities commits to further enhancing reporting in relation to the use of local authority homeless emergency accommodation to allow for an expansion of the information gathered and increased analysis of the reasons driving new homeless presentations and the progress being made to support households to exit emergency accommodation to a tenancy. Since Q3 2025 additional data on ‘children under 18’ in family households in terms of preventions and exits to secure tenancies has been included in the quarterly Progress and Performance Reports.
