Patrick Nulty (Dublin West, Labour)
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213. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the new increased rent supplement limits covering the Fingal area, Dublin, will come into force; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28768/13]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term income support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation available to them from any other source. There are approximately 85,000 recipients of rent supplement for which the Government has provided over €403 million in 2013. The Department recently completed a review of the maximum rent limits under the rent supplement scheme to establish new limits in line with the most up to date data available. This review continues the previous rent limit reviews' emphasis, to ensure that value for money is achieved whilst at the same time ensuring that people on rent supplement are not priced out of the market for private rented accommodation. The revised maximum rent limits, including those for the Fingal area, came into force on Monday 17 June 2013 and will remain in place until 31 December 2014.