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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 10, 2022

QUESTION NO. 14

QUESTION: Councillor Derren Ó Brádaigh

To ask the Chief Executive how many tenants pay by standing order and to provide a breakdown in tabular form of how many pay weekly, fortnightly and monthly?

REPLY:

A standing order is an automatic regular payment for a fixed amount that is set up by an individual bank account holder with their banking provider to make regular, or standing, payments to another account.  Only the account holder authorising the standing order can make changes to it in respect of the amount, payment date or cancellation. 

Rent (and other) payments receipted by the Council which originate from standing orders show only as electronic funds transfers along with all other payments received and are not separately identified as standing orders so therefore we are not in a position to report how many rent payments are received by standing order.

In addition, direct debits are not currently facilitated by the Council as a method of payment of rent but approximately 1,700 tenants in receipt of social welfare payments have their rent deducted weekly through the Household Budget Service provided by An Post.

Of the 9031 accounts that made payment in respect of rent accounts during Sepember, 2022, the following were the individual number of payments received per account:

Number of Payments Per Account Received in September 2022	1	2	3	4+	Total
Number of Accounts	1058	831	821	6321	9031