Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 May 2016
Committee on Housing and Homelessness
Focus Ireland
10:30 am
Mr. Ashley Balbirnie:
It is worth doing and will play a positive role but not to the extent that we would like. One of the arguments was that rent increases are driven or partly impacted upon by increases in rent supplement. I return to the point that there has been a 35% increase - with zero increase in rent supplement - so I am not sure from where that argument comes. The 15% increase is positive. We would like to be warmer about it than we are, but that is purely because of the time lag. It is certainly still worth doing.
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