Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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Question 424: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if an unemployed person who owns a house that is in negative equity and that has been rented out in order to cover the mortgage repayments will be accepted on to the housing list in order to be able to access rent allowance to help with paying their rent in the house that they rent privately. [32262/12]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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The primary purpose of social housing support is to ensure that persons and families who do not have sufficient resources to provide accommodation themselves to meet their needs are provided with adequate housing for their needs.Regulation 22 of Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 provides that an applicant household for long-term social housing support is ineligible for social housing support if a household member owns alternative accommodation that could meet their needs, either through occupation or through the proceeds of selling that accommodation.