Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 553: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if rent support will be offered to persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23681/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The Health Service Executive has advised that the person concerned is currently living in local authority accommodation in Co Kildare. Under the legislation governing entitlement to rent supplement, a person is not entitled to a supplement where he or she has vacated local authority accommodation without satisfying the Health Service Executive there was good cause for doing so.

The person concerned should contact the local housing authority in Carlow so that her housing needs in Carlow can be assessed. She may then advise the community welfare services in Carlow of the circumstances surrounding her intended move to Carlow, so that any entitlement she may have to rent supplement may be determined.