Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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665. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of HAP and RAS recipients respectively by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3337/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Indicative social housing outputs for 2017 were published on Monday 15 January 2018 and are available on my Department’s website at the following link:

My Department is currently finalising and verifying HAP and RAS data relating to 2017 and this data will be published on my Department’s website in due course.

At the end of 2016 local authorities reported that there were 20,306 Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) tenancies in place. The most recent data regarding the number of tenancies funded under the RAS scheme, broken down by local authority is available on my Department's website at the following link:

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At end of the third quarter of 2017, there were a total of 27,618 active HAP tenancies; details of these tenancies, by local authority, are set out in the following table.

Total Active HAP tenancies as at end September 2017