Robert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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178. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount being spent on rent supplement and the numbers of households being supported by this payment, on a county basis, in tabular form. [51609/13]

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. There are approximately 81,000 rent supplement recipients for which the Government has provided over €403 million for 2013. A breakdown of rent supplement recipients by county is provided in the following tabular statement. A breakdown of rent supplement expenditure by county is not available.

Rent Supplement recipients, as of end October 2013