Ms Marguerite Ryan:

Generally the AHBs are not engaged in the HAP market. There can be some unusual situations with moving from the capital assistance scheme, CAS, to HAP and top-ups with the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, to CAS and different arrangements where people accessing long-term rent supplements are transferring across to HAP. It is more to do with the differential in rent. We can look into any specific cases but there are no different treatments of tenants because they are homeless. If anything, there are additional supports available to them.