Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 100: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the rent supplement will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35062/05]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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With the exception of those participating in approved employment schemes, rent supplement is not payable to a household in circumstances where either spouse is in full-time remunerative employment.

The Dublin-mid-Leinster area of the Health Service Executive, which administers the supplementary welfare allowance scheme on my behalf, has advised that it has not received a formal application for rent supplement from the persons concerned. Following an inquiry from them, the individuals in question were verbally informed by the executive that rent supplement would not be payable in the situation where one of the couple was in full-time employment.