Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 244: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if in relation to landlord regulations and supplementary rent allowance, he will introduce a policy that checks if landlords, to which the supplementary rent allowance is paid, are registered with the Private Residential Tenancies Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41893/06]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which is administered on my behalf by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive, provides for the payment of a rent supplement to assist eligible people who are unable to provide for their immediate accommodation needs from their own resources and who do not have accommodation available to them from any other source.

Under the Residential Tenancies Act 2004, landlords are legally obliged to register tenancies with the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB). My Department is committed to working closely with the PRTB to ensure that tenancies that come within the area of rent supplementation comply with the statutory system of tenancy regulation and safeguards. To that end, my Department provides details of rent supplement payments to the PRTB to enable them to identify tenancies that are not registered and to take any follow-up action necessary.