Willie Penrose (Westmeath, Labour)

Question 5: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps he will take to eliminate the euro-for-euro clawback which recipients of social welfare assistance rent allowance must bear, whereby if their pensions or incomes increase by a particular amount the said increase is neutralised by the fact that the rents are assessed on the basis of social welfare assistance rates leading to people who receive increases in their basic social welfare payments being no better off; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31107/05]

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