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Wednesday, 30 April 2014

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

Rental Accommodation Scheme Data

Photo of Dessie EllisDessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)
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474. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons currently part of the rental accommodation scheme; and the annual cost of this scheme. [19139/14]

Photo of Jan O'SullivanJan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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The Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) commenced in 2005 and to the end of February 201 4 some 48,503 households have been transferred from Rent Supplement to RAS and other social housing options. Of this number 28,712 were housed directly under RAS and a further 19,791 were accommodated under other social housing options.

It is not possible to give a definitive number of households in RAS at any given time. Numbers in RASconstantly vary as contracts end, tenants move on to other properties, landlords withdraw from the scheme, new tenancies are allocated or vacancies in contracted units are filled. However, from data contained in claims submitted by local authorities of their contracted rents for Quarter 1, 2014, it is estimated that there were approximately 20,200 direct RAS tenancies in place at end March 2014 for which authorities were recently recouped.

Some €668.5m has been spent in relation to RAS to end March 2014. The table below sets out the annual cost of RAS and transfer numbers achieved (transfer numbers are only available to end February) to date.

Year Annual Expenditure Annual No. of Transfers
2004 €164,836 0
2005 €723,281 606
2006 €6,199,980 4,436
2007 €27,384,837 6,054
2008 €53,025,430 6,915
2009 €83,394,513 6,802
2010 €100,076,430 6,609
2011 €115,917,365 6,337
2012 €125,429,966 5,451
2013 €130,886,608 4,701
To date 2014 €25,885,338 (end Mar) 592 (end Feb)
-€668,588,584 48,503

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