Brendan Ryan (Dublin North, Labour)
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79. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of rent allowance at present; the number of such in each country; and the total cost of same. [52173/13]

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. Tabular Statement Rent Supplement recipients, as of end October 2013