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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 14, 2024

QUESTION NO.11

QUESTION: Councillor W. Carey

to ask the manager to outline the amount of homes that have been levied with the rent surcharge agreed in the 2020 budget and to give an accurate figure totalling monies collected with this charge and to give a breakdown of persons per home affected by this charge and if he could offer this in tabular form.

REPLY:

The Council's Annual Budget 2020 included an additional three euro per week as part of the Council’s differential rent scheme with effect from 1^st February 2020. This was to reflect increased provision for costs associated with our housing stock, planned and response maintenance, re-let repairs and other housing services. 

The weekly differential rent is calculated based on a percentage of the total household aggregated assessable income plus three euro. The additional three euro charge is applied to all tenancies and is not levied on individuals. The income from the charge is relative to the number of live tenancies on a particular week. Based on the current number of tenancies, the charge is approximately €1.7m per annum.