Written answers
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Department of Social and Family Affairs
Social Welfare Benefits
9:00 pm
Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)
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Question 713: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount of rent supplement paid to the private rental sector for housing in Dublin in each of the past five years; the number of tenants who have benefitted in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48444/09]
Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Rent Supplement is administered on behalf of the Department of Social and Family Affairs by the Health Service Executive as part of the Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) scheme.
A breakdown of Rent Supplement expenditure for individual counties is not available. However, the attached tabular statement shows the number of recipients of Rent Supplement in Dublin for the past five years.
TABULAR STATEMENT
Number of Recipients of Rent Supplement in Dublin (City and County)
For End of Year 2005 to 2009 inclusive
Year | No Recipients |
2005 | 22,473 |
2006 | 21,572 |
2007 | 20,498 |
2008 | 24,119 |
2009 | 31,261 |
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