Naoise Ó Cearúil (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing assistance payment applications submitted in County Kildare from 2022 to 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56266/25]

Naoise Ó Cearúil (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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253. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of landlords currently accepting housing assistance payment in County Kildare from 2022 to 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56267/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 252 and 253 together.

The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) is a flexible and immediate housing support that is available to all eligible households throughout the State. Under HAP, a tenant sources their own accommodation in the private rented market. At the end of Q1 2025, almost 127,000 HAP tenancies had been set-up since the scheme commenced, of which there were 52,657 households actively in receipt of HAP support.

The table below provides a breakdown of the total number of active HAP tenancies in Kildare County Council from 2022 to end Q1 2025, in addition to the number of new HAP tenancies set up in each year.

If a person feels that they have been discriminated against by a landlord or their agent, they can make a complaint under the Equal Status Acts to the Workplace Relations Commission; further information is available on the Commission's website, www.workplacerelations.ie/en/.