Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

As far as I am concerned the more people who transfer the better as it saves on rent supplement. One cannot take two different attitudes in the same year to the same scheme. At the beginning of the year we were not doing enough to protect the vulnerable or giving enough to the poor unfortunate tenants. We were going to have them out on the street and homeless because of the changes we made. Now, Deputy Naughten is stating that it is dead money and we should finish the scheme for half the people on it.

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