Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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258. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the €149 million allocated to housing assistance payment as outlined in budget 2018; the amount that has been spent; the way in which the money has been spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27236/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Budget 2018 increased the Exchequer funding for the Housing Assistance Payment scheme (HAP) by €149m to €301 million, in order to meet the continuing costs of supporting existing households and the costs of meeting the additional 17,000 households, targeted under Rebuilding Ireland, to be supported by HAP in 2018.

To date in 2018, expenditure of €117.8m has been incurred supporting over 37,000 active households on the HAP scheme.