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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 14, 2024

QUESTION NO.15

QUESTION: Councillor W. Carey

to ask the manager to outline and offer a figure for rent collected as a result of specific changes to assessment criteria introduced in April 2021. ie a figure for rent collected over and above tenancy thresholds for 2021,2022,and 2023.

REPLY:

There are currently 11,106 households who pay their rent directly to South Dublin County Council as detailed below: 

Account type	Number of Accounts
Council	9986
RAS	590
Leasing	530

As per the Council’s Annual Financial Statements, the following rental income was charged and collected for the years 2021-2023 (includes Council, RAS and Leased tenancies)

Rental income 2021	Rent charged	€29,998,710
	Rent collected	€29,359,056
Rental income 2022	Rent charged	€30,589,387
	Rent collected	€31,247,364
Rental Income 2023	Rent charged	€35,079,289
	Rent collected	€34,505,222

The increase in rental income from 2021-23 is due to multiple factors including: an increase in housing stock each year, the additional three euro charge per household, higher household incomes due to employment growth in a vibrant economy and increases in social welfare payments. In addition our rents team during this period have completed 11,893 rent assessments to ensure that all persons and household income is accurately recorded. It is estimated that approximately 2,800 tenancies have household incomes above the social housing thresholds. No retrospective debits are applied to rent accounts above the thresholds and rent increases are only effective from a current date.