AQW 18744/22-27

Ms Kellie Armstrong
Alliance Party
Strangford

Tabled Date: 25/11/2024
Answered On Date: 08/01/2025
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Communities whether additional support will be provided to the Housing Executive to ensure it can meet its statutory duty to provide emergency homes, given the pressure over recent days when the Housing Executive was concerned that it had reached full capacity of available emergency accommodation.

Answer:

Discussions have been ongoing with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, who strongly refute comments around their failing in their statutory duty to homeless presenters recently.

Following the October monitoring round, I have provided an additional £6.7m to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive to prevent the risk of homeless service closures and ensure statutory obligations can continue to be met.