Francis Noel Duffy (Dublin South West, Green Party)
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252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total State expenditure on HAP in each of the years 2015 to 2020. [61858/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) is a flexible and immediate form of social housing support for people with a long-term housing need. Any household assessed by their local authority as eligible for social housing is immediately eligible for HAP. These households must find their own accommodation in the private rental sector.

The HAP scheme started in 2014 and at the end of Q3 2021, 97,600 HAP tenancies had been set-up since the scheme commenced, of which there were more than 62,300 households actively in receipt of HAP support and over 33,600 separate landlords and agents providing accommodation to households supported by the scheme.

The following table shows total expenditure by my Department for the HAP scheme for each year 2015–2020: