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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 18 Feb 2003

Vol. 561 No. 4

Written Answers. - Rent Levels.

Róisín Shortall

Question:

486 Ms Shortall asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 517 of 11 February, if she will place a copy of the data on rent levels furnished to her Department by the Central Statistics Office in the Oireachtas Library; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4628/03]

The data on rent levels to which the Deputy refers is set out in the following table.

CPI based analysis of rent levels in the private rented sector – source CSO

1 CPI Special Request

Mid-December 2001 Based Linked series

Privately Owned Rent Index

Period

Index: Base = 100 in Mid December 2001

Quarterly % Change

Feb 97 – Apr 97

68.0

May 97 – Jul 97

68.1

0.15

Aug 97 – Oct 97

68.7

0.88

Nov 97 – Jan 98

69.5

1.16

Feb 98 – Apr 98

70.3

1.15

May 98 – Jul 98

71.9

2.28

Aug 98 – Oct 98

73.1

1.67

Nov 98 – Jan 99

74.1

1.37

Feb 99 – Apr 99

75.0

1.21

May 99 – Jul 99

75.9

1.20

Aug 99 – Oct 99

77.0

1.45

Nov 99 – Jan 00

78.2

1.56

Feb 00 – Apr 00

80.4

2.81

May 00 – Jul 00

83.4

3.73

Aug 00 – Oct 00

86.2

3.36

Nov 00 – Jan 01

90.9

5.45

Feb 01 – Apr 01

93.1

2.42

May 01 – Jul 01

97.2

4.40

Aug 01 – Oct 01

98.9

1.75

Nov 01 – Jan 02

100.0

1.11

Feb 02 – Apr 02

100.3

0.30

May 02 – Jul 02

99.3

1.00

Aug 02 – Oct 02

98.8

0.50

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