Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I am delighted to hear the Deputy identifying the problems with the rent supplement because during the time of the previous Government the rent supplement became to go-to position and local authorities basically pulled out of being housing providers. Part of that was because local authority estates, some in the Deputy's area and some in mine, had built up problems which the local authorities found very difficult to manage. We are now trying to rectify an inadequate situation we inherited from the previous Government -----

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