Written answers

Thursday, 27 September 2018

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility

Photo of Eamon RyanEamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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236. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of removing the means-test for maintenance payments, particularly for housing assistance payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39286/18]

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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As the social housing support system is demand driven and given the wide variations in maintenance payments that can arise in relevant individual households, it is not possible to provide the costing requested.

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