Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 November 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund
9:00 am
Ms Mary Hurley:
One of the things that we are conscious of is monitoring the rental market. The rent limits for HAP and the rent supplement were reviewed in 2016 to ensure that they were fair and equitable and were not driving up rents. From looking at the discretion that is being used, we found that in Dublin the average HAP payment is well below the average Dublin rental payment. We are not seeing the effect Deputy Cullinane is talking about but we will continue to monitor the situation because it is very important that we do so.
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