Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----because the scheme provides that when the tenant applies for accommodation and rent supplement, he or she does so against these maximum limits which have been set. Where rent comes up for review or reassessment, it is against these limits that it is reassessed. Deputy Pringle has told us he has evidence of people who are being forced to pay under-the-counter payments to landlords.

The Deputy should expose that because that is not what this scheme is about. The scheme will last until June 2013 and will be moved to the local authority under the housing Bill, under which a new scheme of assistance payments for accommodation for tenants will be introduced. I await hearing the Deputy's evidence of the under-the-counter payments.

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