Written answers
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Department of Social and Family Affairs
Social Welfare Benefits
10:00 pm
Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 365: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount of rent allowance paid in each of the past five years up to 31 October 2009 on a county basis in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41471/09]
Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term income support to eligible persons living in private rented accommodation, whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation available to them from another source. Data is not available on a county basis. The following table shows expenditure in each of the past 5 years by HSE area.
Rent Supplement Expenditure 2005 to 2009
| 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | September 2009* | |
| HSE AREA | â'¬000 | â'¬000 | â'¬000 | â'¬000 | â'¬000 |
| Eastern | 207,199 | 213,997 | 207,521 | 223,300 | |
| Midland | 10,805 | 11,944 | 12,809 | 16,451 | |
| Mid-Western | 20,543 | 21,541 | 21,615 | 25,234 | |
| North Eastern | 13,868 | 15,272 | 17,457 | 22,668 | |
| North Western | 11,379 | 12,998 | 14,472 | 18,231 | |
| South Eastern | 31,515 | 34,441 | 35,346 | 40,641 | |
| Southern | 43,557 | 46,302 | 49,214 | 56,895 | |
| Western | 29,840 | 31,844 | 33,031 | 37,363 | |
| TOTAL | 368,705 | 388,339 | 391,466 | 440,784 | 381,488 |
| * - Data is unavailable by HSE Area for 2009 |
| It should be noted that some of the totals are not equal to the sum of the parts. This is due to rounding. |
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