Written answers

Wednesday, 29 June 2005

Department of Social and Family Affairs

Health Service Allowances

10:00 pm

Photo of Eamon GilmoreEamon 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]

Photo of Eamon GilmoreEamon 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]

Photo of Séamus BrennanSéamus 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
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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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