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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 10, 2022

QUESTION NO. 6

QUESTION: Councillor Carly Bailey

To ask the Chief Executive how many applications were made for discretionary increases in HAP for the year 2021, 2020 and 2019, how many were awarded and what percentage of those HAP tenancies does this equate to for each of the years.

REPLY:

The national shared service operated by Limerick City and County Council manages the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme on behalf of all local authorities with 2,814 HAP tenancies and 2,000 HHAP tenancies registered for South Dublin as of 26th September, 2022..  Data for discretionary increases were recorded by the shared service under the category of "Amendments" with this category also including rent reviews and other tenancy amendments.  The amendments recorded by the shared service for South Dublin tenancies, including any discretionary increases, over the last 3 years were as follows:

HAP Tenancy Amendments	2020	2021	2022
South Dublin	300	320	280

However, since the revised procedures introduced in July 2022 allowing local authorities to increase the HAP discretionary rate from 20% to a maximum of 35%, revised procedures have been put in place to record requests for discretionary increases separately, with 22 discretionary increases recorded since that time.