Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Supply is a problem the Government has not addressed in a serious way. It is a very serious problem, probably one of the most difficult facing the State, but it is not difficult to understand what is happening. The question relates to the levels of rent supplement the Government is prepared to offer. It has refused to build social housing, turned to the private market and offers rent supplement that is not high enough. As a result, it is driving people into poverty and homelessness. This is not difficult to understand; it is logical. What, in God's name, is the Department going to do about the fact that existing rent supplement levels are driving people into poverty and homelessness?

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