Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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336. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for an exceptional needs payment for a deposit for a rented house will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); if their application will be considered in view of the ongoing housing situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43022/18]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The person concerned applied on 27th September 2018 for an exceptional needs payment (ENP) towards a deposit on a new rental accommodation. ENPs are only made in exceptional circumstances. The customer had already made a planned move from the family home to the new accommodation and had provided her own deposit prior to making her ENP application. When applying for this ENP, she advised that she had paid the deposit in cash herself and had funded same through loans from several people and her own savings. The ENP was refused on the basis that the need was not exceptional as it had already been met through the payment of the deposit.

If the customer is dissatisfied with this decision, it is open to her to request a review.

I trust that this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.