Brian O'Shea (Waterford, Labour)
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Question 70: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there is evidence of widespread abuses in the rent allowance system; the number of cases of alleged abuse that have been brought to his attention; the amount of rent allowance being wrongly claimed in respect of each alleged abuse; if his attention has been drawn to any tenants in receipt of the rent allowance not living in the dwelling concerned and subletting it; the number of such cases to which his attention has been drawn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22212/05]

Brian O'Shea (Waterford, Labour)
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Question 139: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of alleged abuses of the rent allowance system which have been brought to his attention in his capacity as a public representative; when his attention was drawn to each such case; the action taken in respect of each case; if he will specify the type and scope of information he has requested from the Department of Social and Family affairs in respect of alleged abuses of the rent allowance system; when he expects to receive a report from that Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22213/05]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 70 and 139 together.

I refer to the reply to Questions Nos. 137 and 170 of 18 May 2005 in which I indicated that the Department of Social and Family Affairs had been asked to look into this matter and to take such actions as it considered appropriate.