Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 July 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter - 24 Supplementary Welfare Allowance
1:05 pm
Robert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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I will turn to the question of rent supplement. Does Ms O'Donoghue agree that, in many cases, rent supplement puts people in a poverty trap? It is my impression that this is the case for many.