
The figures from the Department of Housing also show the nationwide total has exceeded 14,000 for the first time.
4,206 children are growing up in emergency accommodation nationally - which is 17 percent higher than a year ago.
The overall total for the State - 14,009 people registered as homeless - is 14% up on the total from the Department of Housing a year ago.
The rate of growth of the number of homeless people registered is stagnant over the past couple of month - but has slowed compared with 12 months ago, when it was at more than 20%.
The issue is most acute in Dublin where there are more than 10,000 people registered as homeless.
Ministers continually say housing and reducing the numbers registered as homeless is a top priority for Government.
The state's figures don't include women in refuge centres, refugees, asylum seekers, rough sleepers and the so-called hidden homeless.