Of the 97,400 tenancies, where rent supplement is currently payable, the Department systems show 1,725 tenancies where the landlords address is recorded as outside the State. Rent supplement is paid directly to the tenant in Ireland in 1,500 of these cases with 200 cases where the rent supplement is paid directly to the landlord outside of the State.
The current annual value of rent supplement payments made to tenants whose landlords live outside the state is approximately €8.2 million per annum; this represents approximately 1.6% of the total expenditure on rent supplement. The value of rent supplement payments being paid directly to landlords living abroad is approximately €1 million per annum; this represents approximately 0.2% of the total expenditure on rent supplement.