Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

286. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what protections or controls are in place to ensure that private landlords in counties where rent levels are lower are not incentivised to displace sitting tenants in order to secure the accommodation recognition payment where such a payment provides a greater return than existing market rent. [28219/24]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

The Accommodation Recognition Payment is a monthly payment of €800 available to those who are providing accommodation to a person or people who arrived in Ireland under the EU Temporary Protection Directive. It was introduced in July 2022 to recognise the generosity of people who have opened their homes to provide accommodation to Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection.

The scheme is provided for under Part 2 of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 and my Department administers the scheme on behalf of the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. Scheme policy, including considerations in relation to the rental market, is under the remit of the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.

I trust this clarifies the matter.