Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 366: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the total amount spent by way of rent support in lieu of housing in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22323/05]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which is administered on my behalf by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive, provides for the payment of a rent supplement to assist eligible people who are unable to provide for their immediate accommodation needs from their own resources and who do not have accommodation available to them from any other source. Details of expenditure on rent supplements in each of the past five years are set out in the following table.

The 2005 Estimates allocation for this scheme is €369 million.