Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

A total of 18,000 people have been moved from being in receipt of rent supplement onto the RAS. Of those, 8,600 were placed in social housing and the rest, through the local authorities, were perhaps placed in private housing of good quality or whatever. The great benefit of being on this scheme is that once one qualifies for it, one can work, thereby removing any disincentive to work that may have obtained. The more people that transfer the better, and the Department has been working closely with——

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