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Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 14 February 2012

Tuesday, 14 February 2012

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Richard Boyd Barrett

Question:

452 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of notices to quit, broken down by council, served in relation to rent arrears in 2009, 2010 and 2011 and the levels of arrears in these instances; the numbers of these notices to quit that have led to summonses and the number of evictions that resulted; for those households evicted the tracking that is done and if it is known if any of those households became homeless. [8162/12]

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My Department has since 2008 collected data on rent arrears, calculated by the total monetary amounts and not by individual persons or households, owing to local authorities. The data are supplied in a tabular format below. However my Department does not collect data on notices to quit related to those rent arrears.

Data in respect of 2011 are not yet available.

Local Authorities

Rent arrears at date specified

County Councils

1st Jan 2008

1st Jan 2009

1st Jan 2010

Carlow

84,873

109,471

160,989

Cavan1

0

214,556

350,000

Clare

375,379

363,279

655,272

Cork North

11,238

14,772

69,385

Cork South

391,776

397,744

550,648

Cork West

210,491

134,063

123,691

Donegal

803,777

789,230

813,395

Dún Laoghaire Rathdown

1,410,295

2,162,803

2,556,128

Fingal

797,918

787,066

918,236

Galway

549,116

526,352

722,076

Kerry

234,710

418,520

358,375

Kildare

863,458

896,353

1,182,098

Kilkenny

431,555

435,078

480,123

Laois

433,205

315,346

327,097

Leitrim

113,177

89,067

143,012

Limerick1

0

442,504

472,028

Longford1

0

400,275

608,991

Louth

90,060

168,595

444,192

Mayo

1,022,451

921,180

900,257

Meath

640,766

473,250

838,962

Monaghan

72,748

70,222

54,889

North Tipperary

27,222

20,803

71,759

Offaly

278,932

276,969

290,896

Roscommon

380,884

370,022

712,154

Sligo

220,504

123,418

373,314

South Dublin

127,613

5,384,977

5,430,994

South Tipperary

168,869

84,964

254,778

Waterford

127,613

135,404

183,596

Westmeath

297,438

604,557

723,675

Wexford

657,534

675,753

152,062

Wicklow

289,913

365,289

275,811

Total (1)

11,113,517

16,912,251

21,198,883

City Councils

Cork

1,428,656

1,558,922

1,796,483

Dublin

14,272,333

13,939,639

19,526,762

Galway

1,342,782

1,567,429

2,235,764

Limerick

770,987

737,000

647,029

Waterford

627,790

786,367

1,122,119

Total (2)

18,442,548

18,589,357

25,328,157

Rent arrears at date specified

Town Councils

1st Jan 2008

1st Jan 2009

1st Jan 2010

Arklow

66,899

57,843

73,401

Athlone

132,946

132,946

134,447

Athy

52,908

608,577

78,408

Ballina

156,344

135,342

88,962

Ballinasloe

24,069

31,343

27,765

Birr

9,629

5,932

17,345

Bray

81,737

109,950

144,724

Buncrana

21,433

38,769

71,616

Bundoran

7,279

8,586

5,412

Carlow1

0

20,268

10,070

Carrickmacross

2,968

7,204

13,158

Carrick-on-Suir

31,155

40,522

93,060

Cashel

26,325

11,294

14,459

Castlebar

24,791

19,037

14,826

Castleblaney

5,483

9,210

7,888

Cavan

231,005

241,787

277,907

Clonakilty1

0

46,874

52,899

Clones

5,490

8,943

17,179

Clonmel

23,687

46,962

88,729

Cobh

40,292

46,184

71,581

Drogheda1

0

340,156

545,520

Dundalk

359,079

372,057

354,287

Dungarvan

154,584

114,083

112,444

Ennis

46,486

33,720

54,938

Enniscorthy

131,646

125,037

152,062

Fermoy

21,890

21,098

58,152

Kells2

0

0

0

Kilkenny2

136,058

131,850

0

Killarney

9,650

8,721

9,019

Kilrush

21,803

19,873

19,370

Kinsale

49,776

46,420

46,388

Letterkenny

39,012

37,825

45,373

Listowel

24,126

29,035

40,704

Longford

200,000

130,483

136,073

Macroom

3,955

3,732

1,843

Mallow

30,665

49,476

38,884

Midleton

26,586

18,282

33,459

Monaghan

64,419

54,460

57,318

Naas

35,176

90,066

105,490

Navan2

0

0

0

Nenagh

9,252

13,538

28,456

New Ross1

0

42,346

29,899

Skibbereen

21,311

19,945

21,000

Sligo

188,342

219,839

271,358

Templemore

2,264

14,388

0

Thurles

38,663

28,366

25,001

Tipperary

18,216

2,000

18,222

Tralee

232,562

249,877

290,398

Trim2

0

0

0

Tullamore

225,178

278,839

286,000

Westport3

0

0

16,339

Wexford

236,181

199,520

205,715

Wicklow

26,489

11,916

715

Youghal3

0

0

0

Total (3)

3,297,810

4,025,998

4,308,260

Totals (1+2+3)

32,853,875

39,527,605

50,835,300

12008 data not available.

2Included in county return.

3Not available.

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