Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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310. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to amend the housing assistance payment legislation in order that HAP is transformed into a short-term housing support as opposed to under the current legislation in which a recipient's social housing needs being deemed as met. [16999/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Programme for Government contains a number of commitments in terms of HAP, namely to:

- ensure that Rent Supplement and Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) levels are adequate to support vulnerable households, while we increase the supply of social housing, and,

- reduce our reliance on the use of HAP for new social housing solutions, as the supply of social and public housing increases.

I will consider the current operation of HAP, in the broader context of social housing delivery, to ensure that these commitments are met.