Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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874. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the annual number of persons in County Meath who have moved from rent supplement to the rental accommodation scheme from 2010 to date in 2015. [49749/14]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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875. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the number of persons in County Meath who have moved from rent supplement to local authority housing from 2010 to date in 2015. [49750/14]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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904. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the annual number of persons approved for the rental accommodation scheme in County Meath since the scheme began. [49755/14]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 874, 875 and 904 together.

The Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) is a targeted scheme catering for the accommodation needs of persons in receipt of Rent Supplement, generally for more than 18 months, from the Department of Social Protection and who are assessed by housing authorities as having a long-term housing need.

Since the scheme commenced in late 2005 and up to the end of October 2014 some 947 households have been transferred by the local authority from Rent Supplement to RAS and other social housing supports in County Meath. The information requested is outlined in the tables.