Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 June 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Rent Supplement: Discussion

1:00 pm

Mr. Pat Doyle:

No. We are saying that the rent went up by €350 over four months. That family, on one low income, could not continue to pay that rent. If we had been able to go with the rent supplement initiative in that case, we would have been able to go above the 20% of the housing assistance payment and we might have been able to hold them in. I mention that case to support what Mr. Allen is saying - that the majority of those who are coming our way at the moment already have a property. We just need to keep them in the property.

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