Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Wednesday, 20 Mar 2002

Vol. 550 No. 4

Written Answers. - Shared Ownership Scheme.

Richard Bruton

Ceist:

510 Mr. R. Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government the number of households receiving rent subsidies funded by his Department under shared ownership in each of the past five years; the value of the subsidy paid; the number in respect of the Dublin local authorities; the proportion of new shared ownership applicants who qualify for rent subsidy in the first year of their loan; and his estimate of this proportion in respect of the Dublin local authorities. [9569/02]

Minister of State at the Department of the Environment and Local Government (Mr. Molloy)

Under the shared ownership scheme administered by the local authorities, an annual rent subsidy ranging from €1,269 to €2,539 is available to eligible persons whose household income in the preceding tax year was €25,394 or less and where the subsidy would not reduce the rent payable below €1.27 per week. The full amount of rent subsidy allowed to applicants is recouped by my Department to local authorities on foot of claims received from them.

Details of the amounts recouped by my Department to local authorities and the number of households involved for the years 1997-2001 are set out in the following tables.

All Local Authorities

	No. of Households	Total recouped to Local Authorities€
1997	1,414	793,552
1998	1,846	1,710,832
1999	1,981	1,576,864
2000	1,273	1,097,376
2001	1,502	1,468,802

LocalAuthority	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
	No.(a)	(b)Recouped€	No.(a)	(b)recouped€	No.(a)	(b)recouped€	No.(a)	(b)recouped€	No.(a)	(b)recouped€
DúnlaoghaireRathdown	23	19,329	25	22,451	19	22,594	17	8,575	16	8,602
Fingal	133	87,533	116	76,674	76	62,589	59	50,654	66	64,498
South Dublin	174	90,280	199	128,921	147	87,354	0	0	250	333,254
Dublin City Council	380	126,580	392	408,942	805	637,171	307	272,508	458	470,995

(a) Number of Households

(b) Total recouped to Local Authority

Information relating to the proportion of eligible applicants for the years 1997-2000 is set out in the following tables.

Total (National)	Total (Dublin Local Authorities)
	No. oftransactionscompleted	No. eligible forsubsidy	% eligible forsubsidy		No. oftransactionscompleted	No. eligible forsubsidy	% eligible for subsidy
1997	1,042	413	39.6%	1997	588	231	39.3%
1998	805	311	38.6%	1998	455	126	27.7%
1999	1,314	185	14.1%	1999	926	78	8.4%
2000	1,190	466	39.2%	2000	794	269	33.9%

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown	Fingal
	No. oftransactionscompleted	No. eligible forsubsidy	% eligible forsubsidy		No. oftransactionscompleted	No. eligible forsubsidy	% eligible for subsidy
1997	11	1	9.1%	1997	123	34	27.6%
1998	9	0	0.0%	1998	54	6	11.1%
1999	36	0	0.0%	1999	45	0	0.0%
2000	40	17	42.5%	2000	42	19	45.2%

South Dublin	Dublin City Council
	No. oftransactionscompleted	No. eligible forsubsidy	% eligible forsubsidy		No. oftransactionscompleted	No. eligible forsubsidy	% eligible for subsidy
1997	160	79	49.4%	1997	294	117	39.8%
1998	114	37	32.5%	1998	278	83	29.9%
1999	306	11	3.6%	1999	539	67	12.4%
2000	249	86	34.5%	2000	463	147	31.7%