Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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306. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of rent supplement for more than three months. [41966/13]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term 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. The Government has provided over €403 million for the scheme for 2013. There are currently 82,000 rent supplement recipients of which approximately 75,000 are in receipt of the supplement for more than three months.