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

Very briefly. I know the plan is to transfer people who are working, the working poor who cannot afford stuff, to HAP. Huge numbers of landlords will never go to HAP, so Ms Faughnan will still be dealing with this for a long time, no matter what the Minister might say or Ms Faughnan might hope. HAP is supposed to help people who are working and put them on a differential rent. It is a recognition that people who are working cannot afford accommodation. That recognition has to work back into the rent supplement. Has there been any discussion about that? In other words, people who are on low incomes but cannot afford these rents who are working and are currently homeless - I am dealing with homeless working people at the moment - should also be given rent supplements.