Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 July 2016

Select Committee on Social Protection

Rent Supplement Increases: Department of Social Protection

10:30 am

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I welcome that news. I will monitor the situation closely. I have no choice but to do so as people are contacting me about this matter. I appeal to the Department to recognise the scale of the problem in south Dublin. There may be other areas; I do not want to say it is exclusive to south Dublin, but it is worse there. To get the scale of it, that rent level is double the average in Dublin city. In addition, house prices in Dún Laoghaire are also double the average. The two things are obviously linked.

I just have one other question to follow up.

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