Written answers

Wednesday, 13 May 2020

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

Local Authority Housing Rents

Photo of Jackie CahillJackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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1262. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average rent paid by local authority tenants for each local authority area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4598/20]

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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The right of local authorities to set and collect rents on their dwellings is contained in section 58 of the Housing Act 1966. The making or amending of such schemes, subject to broad principles laid down by my Department, is an executive function and each local authority has its own separate differential rent scheme or schemes in operation.

As I have no function in relation to the setting of rents for individual local authority dwellings, my Department does not routinely collate data on the rents charged to tenants by individual local authorities. Such information is available directly from the local authorities.

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