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Funding Allocations

The Homeless Agency allocates funding to homeless services in Dublin. The funding comes from the Health Service Executive and the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. The Homeless Agency has fulfilled this role since the approval of its first action plan. Currently over 70 different services are funded through the Homeless Agency and these are provided by over 31 voluntary and statutory service provider organisations.

Following a review of progress made in the first year of implementing actions in A key to the door, the Board of the Homeless Agency have determined high level priorities for 2008 to continue the momentum to meet the Vision by 2010. One of the three high level priorities outlined the need to review expenditure on homeless services and develop and propose a capital and revenue funding mechanism to be agreed as part of a revised funding regime.

In order to confirm the impact of public expenditure on homeless services in Dublin and to help illustrate alternative options in expenditure decision making, the key objective is to; ‘Undertake a Value for Money (VfM) exercise that examines and considers in detail the cost effectiveness of homeless services in Dublin, their equity (equality of outcome), as well as their overall efficiency’.

Within the context of an agreed framework for measuring outcomes based on A key to the door, a unit costing approach will be developed for measuring the outcomes of categories of services established. The unit costs that will be required to deliver a stated quality standard will be benchmarked against other social care, public and private services where appropriate comparison can be made (e.g. unit costs of expenditure to deliver emergency accommodation with care supports benchmarked against expenditure on long-term occupation of Hospital A&E services and/or nursing home services, including ancillary services delivered under HSE Home Care Packages).  This approach will take account of the specialised elements of homeless service provision. That is where a standard is developed in respect of a particular aspect of service provision (e.g. specialist emergency hostel) that standard must also be underpinned by an appropriate financial estimate of resources required to meet that standard.