Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I had planned to raise a different issue today but instead I want to mention that when I had to go out for something earlier, I was shocked to see tents that are used by homeless people for shelter being removed from the area outside Agriculture House on Kildare Street. The people doing this work were using a van from the infamous Aramark company. They were working on behalf of DublinTown, which is working on behalf of Dublin City Council to remove the tents. This is the only accommodation that homeless people have. The recent ESRI report, which was published yesterday, set out that the unavailability of rent subsidies puts people at risk of homelessness. Will the Tánaiste ensure that rent allowance limits are raised, as outlined by the ESRI, and that the thresholds for access to housing are raised, as the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage has been considering for the last two years?

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