Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Ms Caroline Timmons:
Is the Deputy referring to the new scheme? The tenant in situscheme threshold is set at €53,000, which matches the current cost-rental legislation because the ambition is to transition these into the normal cost-rental situation over time as we change the legislation. The CREL scheme working group is looking at the income thresholds at the moment as part of the overall review of all of the elements of cost rental to ensure they work. As we said in reply to a previous member, this is to ensure that if income eligibility were potentially to be revised upwards, we would not disadvantage someone lower down the eligibility stream. That may be a complex piece to put forward but the working group is working on bringing proposals in that respect.
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