Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 June 2016

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised)

While there are illegal informal top-up arrangements with respect to rent supplement, there are also permitted top-up arrangements with respect to the housing assistance payment, HAP. Is the new arrangement applicable to those top-ups for the HAP? Has the Department got its head around as to how it will guide community welfare officers, in this case local authority officials, to make assessments around that? How one evidences an informal top-up might be difficult to do.