'Unintentional oversight' led to overcounting of homeless adults

The full extent of the overcounting, which was first revealed last September, saw an extra 299 people recorded as being in emergency accommodation when the service user had left the accommodation. File picture: Larry Cummins

A report into the overcounting of the number of adults who were homeless has found it was caused by "an unintentional oversight" due to two data recording systems being used at the same time.

The full extent of the overcounting, which was first revealed last September, saw an extra 299 people recorded as being in emergency accommodation when the service user had left the accommodation and was then wrongly recorded in some homeless reports published by the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive (DRHE).