Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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No. It is purely to provide for transitional arrangements in respect of the proposed new rent schemes that will gradually be put in place. There will be a three-year period - up to 2017 - during which those schemes must be introduced. The change in respect of HAP recipients will happen immediately. Regardless of the local authority areas in which they reside, in future, one-person households in receipt of basic social welfare payments will all pay the same amount in rent. The change will be immediate in respect of HAP tenants but there will be a gradual transition in respect of council tenants. Does that make sense?