Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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410. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons in receipt of housing assistance payment, by local authority, as of month end January 2024. [6493/24]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme is a flexible and immediate housing support that is available to all eligible households with a long term housing need. Any household assessed as eligible for social housing is immediately eligible for HAP. At end Q3 2023, just under 115,000 HAP tenancies had been set-up since the scheme commenced, with 57,617 active tenancies being supported under the HAP Scheme.

The latest available data covers the period up to end Q3 2023. Details of the number of active tenancies by local authority area at the end of Q3 2023 are set out in the table below.

* DRHE is operating the HAP Homeless on behalf of the four Dublin local authorities