Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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Right, sorry. Just specifically on rents, I believe people who should be entitled to the housing assistance payment are currently not, as the ESRI paper suggested; however, that payment is not the ideal way to address the problem. Would it not be better if the rents were lower and we could control them so did not have to spend as much on subsidising rents?