Dr. Robert Sweeney:

There are two types of top-ups. One involves the tenant paying directly to the private landlord. The other type is where the local authority pays. It exceeds the thresholds. There are two ways of exceeding those thresholds. Generally, they only have discretion in a certain number of cases to exceed those thresholds by 20%. In some cases, where the family has been homeless and in the Dublin area, those thresholds can be exceeded by 50%.

I have the relevant figure on the proportion of HAP tenancies that are exceeded by 20%, and it is 28.3%. The proportion of HAP tenancies that avail of the 50% uplift is 10%, essentially. In total, almost 40% of local authority tenancies are availing of those uplifts.