Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I will throw in an extra issue because I am talking to the Minister. I do not know the next time I will get to. It is slightly off topic but it is under the Minister’s brief.

It is another great unfairness that needs to be addressed and probably is between the Minister and the Minister for housing. It is about people who go over eligibility thresholds for social housing support. When they go over those thresholds, even if they have been on the housing list for 15 or 20 years, all of a sudden they have gone off a cliff. They spent all those years waiting and they are not entitled either to housing financial support such as HAP or rental allowance, etc. That is between the Minister and the Department of housing, that is, the rent allowance end of it. I ask the Minister to consider this matter. People in homelessness end up trapped there because they work, they are over these thresholds and consequently cannot get help-----

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