asked the Minister for Local Government the average net amount paid in rent and purchase annuities for Dublin Corporation dwellings in 1968-69 after allowing for necessary expenditure for maintenance repairs and administration; and to what extent this amount met the average loan charges per dwelling in the same financial year.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Dublin Corporation Rent and Purchase Annuities.
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The average amount paid by tenants and tenant purchasers of Dublin Corporation dwellings in 1968-69 after deduction of the corporation's expenditure on maintenance, repairs and administration was 6s 4d per week per dwelling. In the same year the average loan charges per dwelling amounted to 27s 6d per week. In effect, therefore, the net payment per dwelling represented, on average, less than a quarter of the capital cost of the dwelling.
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asked the Minister for Local Government if he will state in respect of the latest period for which figures are available (1) the average income of and rent paid by families allocated tenancies by Dublin Corporation, and (2) the average income and outgoings on houses provided by persons allocated house purchase loans by the corporation.
The average income of families allocated tenancies of corporation dwellings in the quarter ended 31st March 1970, was approximately £17 a week. The rent paid by them for a five-roomed dwelling was, on average, about £2 10s a week, plus increases in rates after 1964-65, estimated to average about 11s a week.
Approximately 65 per cent of persons allocated house-purchase loans by the corporation in the same period had an income of about £20 a week or less. Assuming that they paid a deposit of about £900, and allowing for State and supplementary grants, the average outgoings on each house purchaser in the period are estimated at about £6 10s a week, including ground rent, maintenance and insurance. In addition, they would have to pay one-tenth of the rates in the first year, two-tenths in the second and so on until full rates become payable. At present these would be equivalent to about 30s to £2 a week on an average "small dwellings Act" house.
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asked the Minister for Local Government if he will state in relation to local authority dwellings provided by Dublin Corporation (1) the amount of subsidies paid to the corporation by the Government from taxation and the amount borne by the rates in respect of the financial year 1969-70, (2) the amount of rents received from these dwellings in the same year, and (3) the average subsidy per dwelling and the average rent per dwelling.
Subsidies to help to keep low the rents of dwellings provided by Dublin Corporation amounted to about £3.8 million in 1969-70, borne in approximately equal proportions by the Exchequer and the rents paid for the dwellings amounted to £2.8 million.
The average amount per dwelling paid in subsidies was about £78 a year. The average rent came to about £62 annually per dwelling.
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asked the Minister for Local Government the average amount paid in rent by Dublin Corporation tenants on (1) fixed rents, (2) differential rents for the latest period for which figures are available and (3) the estimated rent necessary to cover the cost of providing and maintaining a corporation house in the same period.
In 1969-70, the average amount paid in rent by Dublin Corporation tenants on fixed rent was approximately 14s a week plus rates. The average amount paid by tenants on differential rents was approximately £2 6s a week plus increases in rates since 1964-65. In the same period, the cost to the corporation of providing and maintaining a five-roomed house was about £6 a week. The corresponding cost for a flat would be about twice that amount.