Written answers
Wednesday, 29 June 2005
Department of Social and Family Affairs
Health Service Allowances
10:00 pm
Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 265: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the total number of rent allowance recipients for each year, for each health board area for the past five years. [23375/05]
Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 266: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the total expenditure on the rent allowance for each health board area, for each year of the past five years. [23376/05]
Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 265 and 266 together.
Details of recipients of rent supplement and expenditure on rent supplements in each of the past five years by health board area are set out in the following tables.
Table 1: Expenditure on rent supplement by health board area from 2000 to 2004. | |||||
2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | |
â'¬m | â'¬m | â'¬m | â'¬m | â'¬m | |
ERHA | 78.3 | 87.9 | 123.9 | 176.5 | 197.9 |
MHB | 4.7 | 5.8 | 9.0 | 11.1 | 10.6 |
MWHB | 8.4 | 10.8 | 14.8 | 18.8 | 19.7 |
NEHB | 6.8 | 9.9 | 14.3 | 16.0 | 14.4 |
NWHB | 4.7 | 5.7 | 8.1 | 9.4 | 9.9 |
SEHB | 13.0 | 16.8 | 23.6 | 28.6 | 29.6 |
SHB | 20.5 | 24.6 | 33.7 | 41.5 | 42.3 |
WHB | 14.2 | 17.9 | 24.9 | 29.6 | 29.4 |
Table 2: Recipients of rent supplement by health board area from 2000 to 2004. | |||||
2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | |
ERHA | 18,609 | 17,866 | 21,874 | 25,523 | 25,711 |
MHB | 1,606 | 1,790 | 2,285 | 2,319 | 2,090 |
MWHB | 2,975 | 3,271 | 3,892 | 4,348 | 4,163 |
NEHB | 2,292 | 2,787 | 3,352 | 3,374 | 2,876 |
NWHB | 1,924 | 2,111 | 2,569 | 2,738 | 2,535 |
SEHB | 3,995 | 4,667 | 5,536 | 6,190 | 6,018 |
SHB | 6,579 | 7,035 | 8,334 | 8,985 | 8,539 |
WHB | 4,703 | 5,501 | 6,371 | 6,499 | 5,942 |
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