Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy is fixated on lists, but many of those in receipt of rent supplement about which he is talking have been on housing waiting lists for ten years or more. What we want to do is ensure people can have access to a local authority house. I am not, therefore, trying to massage figures, rather I am trying to introduce a system that will be more coherent for those who need social housing support. That is the purpose of the legislation. There has been a complete misinterpretation in this part of the debate of what is stated in the section. Up to now, we have had reasonable debates on it. This is a genuine misrepresentation of what we are doing.

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