Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach is giving a false impression about the reduction of the housing list. If a couple with three or four children in receipt of family income supplement earn over €33,600 a year, they are knocked off the housing list. That family can never get a mortgage or build their own house. They still need a house and should be left on the housing list. People who have been on the housing list for 13 years are being thrown off it because they are in receipt of family income supplement. Surely when people are receiving social welfare payments to stay alive, they should not be thrown off the housing list, but that is what is happening in County Kerry. It is happening all around the county and wrong.

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