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‹ Ceisteanna-Questions. Oral Answers. - Elimination of Poverty. Local authority rent increases
Summary
De Rossa said rising local authority rents were clawing back welfare increases. Woods agreed to pursue the issue with the Environment Minister and noted the increases would not take effect until July.
The Minister has indicated that there has been an increase in the rate for unemployed and so on but I wonder if he is aware that local authorities are now increasing rents and in many cases are clawing back the increases which the Minister has given through social welfare payments? Does the Minister propose to talk to his colleague, the Minister for the Environment, with a view to having that stopped?
