Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 October 2025

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised)

2:00 am

Photo of James BrowneJames Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)

There is no intention to widen it outside of those who are currently entitled to it. The legislation will be going to pre-legislative scrutiny soon. I will talk to Deputy Ó Broin to see if he is satisfied with it. I do not want to anticipate. The uplift is in there and I am anxious to get that done as quickly as possible. We are looking at tweaks to the scheme too but not widening it beyond those who are currently availing of it. It is more to try, in what way we can, to make it easier for those who are in the scheme to be able to use it.

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