S.I. No. 200/2015 - Housing Assistance Payment (Amendment) Regulations 2015.


Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 22nd May, 2015.

I, ALAN KELLY, Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 4 and 43 of the Housing (Miscellaneous) Provisions Act 2014 (No. 21 of 2014), and with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, hereby make the following regulations:

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Assistance Payment (Amendment) Regulations 2015.

Commencement

2. These Regulations come into operation on 25 May 2015.

Maximum rent limits

3. Regulation 10 of the Housing Assistance Payment Regulations 2014 ( S.I. No. 407 of 2014 ) is amended by substituting the following for the Table to that Regulation:

“TABLE

MAXIMUM MONTHLY RENT LIMITS

Household class

Local authority administrative area (1)

One adult in shared accomm-odation (2)

A couple in shared accomm-odation (3)

One adult (4)

A couple (5)

One adult, or a couple, with 1 child (6)

One adult, or a couple, with 2 children (7)

One adult, or a couple, with 3 children (8)

Cork County Council

€250

€270

€485

€575

€700

€725

€750

Donegal County Council

175

200

300

325

350

400

450

Dublin City Council

350

400

520

750

950

975

1,000

Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council

350

400

520

750

950

975

1,000

Fingal County Council

300

350

520

700

850

900

950

Kilkenny County Council

200

230

390

430

540

565

590

Limerick City and County Council

200

240

375

400

500

550

600

Louth County Council

215

250

390

400

550

575

600

Monaghan County Council

180

190

300

350

400

433

450

South Dublin County Council

350

400

520

750

950

975

1,000

Waterford City and County Council

220

240

375

390

475

500

525

.”

The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform consents to the making of the foregoing Regulations.

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GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform,

14 May 2015.

BRENDAN HOWLIN,

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.

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GIVEN under my Official Seal,

15 May 2015.

ALAN KELLY,

Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation)

These regulations amend the Housing Assistance Payment Regulations 2014 ( S.I. No. 407 of 2014 ) by substituting an expanded Table in Regulation 10, which, in addition to the maximum rent limits previously prescribed under section 43(2)(a) of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (No. 21 of 2014) for specified classes of qualified household, sets out the maximum rent limits that will, under the Housing Assistance Payment (Section 50) Regulations 2015 ( S.I. No. 199 of 2015 ), apply from 25 May 2015 in the administrative area of Donegal County Council.