Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 443: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons in County Kildare currently in receipt of rent support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28016/09]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which includes rent supplement, is administered on behalf of the Department by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive. There are currently 3,976 recipients of rent supplement in County Kildare.