Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

If the Deputy makes the details of the case to which she referred in Tallaght available to me, I will pass them to the community welfare service in Tallaght with the permission of the family she is dealing with because the objective has to be to keep families in homes. The practice of landlords of indicating through websites that rent allowance is not acceptable is not helpful. On the other hand, when one website took down the statement, a number of agencies dealing with people in accessing rented accommodation did not believe it was helpful. There is, therefore, a slight difference of opinion. I do not like to see such a blanket exclusion, but agencies want to know if a landlord is interested in somebody who may be in receipt of rent supplement.

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