Rent supplement budget for 2019

QUESTION

To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rent supplement budget for 2019.

REPLY

The Budget for Rent Supplement in 2019 is €132.4m, as published in the 2019 Budget Estimates on Budget Day.
Expenditure on Rent Supplement is declining as a result of the transfer of recipients to the Housing Assistance Payment administered by local authorities and funded from the Vote of the Department of Housing,  Planning and Local Government.