Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)
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To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons that are on the housing waiting list and transfer list in each local authority; if he will indicate the allocations that have been made in 2012 through the rental accommodation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58059/12]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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My Department does not hold information on the number of households on local authorities’ waiting lists. This figure fluctuates continually according as households are allocated housing and other households apply for housing support. Detailed information on the latest statutory assessment of housing need, carried out in March 2011, including a breakdown by housing authority, is available on my Department’s website – www.environ.ie or on the Housing Agency’s website at www.housing.ie.

Since 1 April 2011 all housing authorities assess applicants for social housing support in accordance with section 20 of the Housing (scellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and regulations made under that section, primarily the Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011. At the end of November 2012 local authorities had transferred a total of 42,687 households from Rent Supplement (RS). Of these 25,123 were housed directly under RAS and a further 17,564 were accommodated under other social housing options. A breakdown of the 4,928 households transferred from rent supplement in 2012 (to end November), by local authority, is given in the table below.

(* to end November 2012)