Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 December 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund

9:00 am

Photo of Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

One such provision is the 4% per year cap in the rent pressure zones. Galway is one of those zones. More and more tenants are coming into my office, and the offices of other members, who have received notices to quit under what are ostensibly notices for sale but there is not really a sale. They have no choice. If they fight and go to the authority in Dublin they will get no reference. They are caught in a crazy situation. That is all Government policy. I will move onto a few more things. What welfare officers or offices are in the Gaeltacht in Galway, the biggest Gaeltacht in the country? What services are provided in Irish by the Department?

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