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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE

Monday, January 25, 2021

QUESTION NO.14

QUESTION: Councillor L. Dunne

"To ask the Chief Executive how many residential properties are there in total in the Tallaght South & Tallaght Central areas. To additionally ask how many of these properties are privately rented,HAP,RAS and any other state supported schemes with a break down of each?"

REPLY:

According to the 2016 Census, there were 14,509 residential units in Tallaght South and 14,760 residential units in Tallght Central.

In 2020, the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) reported over 5,000 properties in the greater Tallaght area, as registered private rental properties.

There is 1,738 live HAP tenancies in these areas. The tenancies are a combination of HAP and Homeless HAP where the applicant is on SDCC housing list. In some cases there could be more than one tenancy at the same address where applicants are receiving a shared rate of HAP.

There is a total of 1,123 RAS properties.  These are not categorised into local electoral areas.  It is estimated that 420 of these properties are in the Tallaght South and Tallaght Central areas.  

There are approximately 6000 local authority social housing units in the Tallaght South and Central areas.