Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will try not to repeat myself. The HAP is at the centre of this legislation and although the coming into being of the payment is entirely positive, the idea that once a person gets the payment, he or she is taken off a housing waiting list is entirely negative. Does the Minister of State accept that her officials contacted Kildare County Council to indicate that everybody involved with leasing and RAS should be taken off the housing waiting list? Does she accept that her officials contacted Kildare County Council to indicate that when the HAP is introduced, nobody in receipt of the payment should be entitled to continue on a council waiting list? These are simple and straightforward questions.

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