John Halligan (Waterford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

What steps has the Department of Social Protection taken to mitigate the shortcomings within the rent supplement scheme? Will the Minister acknowledge that the revised monthly rental limits, particularly in the Waterford area, are well below the average rents being charged by landlords and that the number of landlords refusing to accept tenants who indicate they will be making an application for rent supplement is increasingly resulting in more families finding it impossible to source adequate accommodation within the monthly rental limits?

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