Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 225: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when community welfare officers will offer rent or family support assistance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who had to travel to their homeland to obtain documentary evidence required by the Department of Justice, Equality and Law reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39831/06]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which includes rent supplement, is administered on my behalf by the Community Welfare division of the Health Service Executive.

Supplementary welfare allowance is not normally payable where a person is absent from the State. The Health Service Executive has advised that it ceased payment of rent supplement to the person concerned for the period she was absent from the State. The Executive has further advised that on her return her rent supplement was re-instated and payment from 1st November 2006 will issue shortly.