Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 February 2023

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Mairéad FarrellMairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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Obviously, it depends on what government would implement it. I take that point.

For Age Action, one of the points that jumped out at me, and something I have noticed increasingly, is pensioners facing being in shared rented accommodation and knowing that they have to retire. One man had to retire by 70 and he knew he would not be able to afford his housing assistance payment, HAP, accommodation because he was paying way too much. Is that something that is coming up a lot for Age Action?