Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has figures for the number of people in receipt of housing assistance payment and the number in receipt of rental assistance, while the Department of Social Protection has figures for the number of people getting rent supplement. It is those three cohorts that I am trying to get to the bottom of. We can get the figures from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in respect of the number of tenancies that are receiving any of those three supports. Insofar as I can figure out the information provided in the opening statement, although it might have been answering different questions, which I do not mean in any negative way but rather that I am trying to decipher the relevant information, it appears there is a high percentage of tenancies where a rent supplement of one kind of another is being paid that are not registered with the RTB.

If our guests do not have that information to hand, will they revert to the committee with it? It is very basic information. If a landlord is letting a property and rent supplement, a rental assistance scheme payment or a housing assistance payment is being paid on it, that should be registered with the RTB.

I ask Ms Gallagher to revert to the committee with that information.