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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, November 12, 2007

QUESTION NO. 12

QUESTION: Councillor T. Ridge

To ask the Manager how many landlords have joined the RAS letting scheme?

REPLY:

The Rental Accommodation Scheme commenced in South Dublin County Council in late 2005, the first landlords signed up to the scheme with effect from 1st January 2006.

The transfer of properties to RAS has continued and at the 31st October 2007 two hundred and forty four landlords had contracted properties into the scheme. Several landlords had multiple properties resulting in a total of three hundred properties now housing former Rent Supplement Recipients.