I will take questioners four and five and then we will move on.

I note for the record that this is not just in relation to Oireachtas Members. This goes for everyone. There is no special treatment for us in here, to be clear.

It is important.

I call Deputy Stanley.

I wish to raise the HAP scheme and the commitment on page 21 of the programme for Government to enhance security of tenure, which it states is essential to make HAP an effective means of delivery for tenants. Time does not allow me to go into the other parts of the commitment. The Tánaiste was formerly the Minister responsible for housing, and the current Minister of State with responsibility for this area, Deputy Damien English, is in the House. I welcome the fact that he is here. Constituents are receiving letters from community welfare officers which state: "Please be advised that your rent supplement payment has been suspended." Another letter indicates that the landlord of a property is unwilling to sign up to the HAP scheme and that it is therefore up to the recipient to find alternative suitable accommodation by 28 April.

I thank the Deputy.

I will be brief. This is a very serious situation. These families and others face homelessness and the local authority can do nothing for them.

I call the Tánaiste or Minister of State.

They are in the HAP scheme or are being pushed into it. They are on supplementary welfare allowance.

Deputy, we have overrun.

I ask for just one second.

The Deputy's colleague is waiting.

There is no superintendent welfare officer due to the sad passing of the last one who has not been replaced.

I am going to cut the question now and move on.

We have no one to contact and these families face homelessness.

It is the Deputy's colleague who is waiting.

I would like the Minister of State to follow up on that service.

Deputy Stanley normally observes the time limit.

This is homelessness, though.

There is an attempt to move from rent supplement to HAP, which is a better structure for tenants. It provides them with a great deal more certainty and it works. When people are in the HAP system, they like it.

Landlords are not accepting it.

No one is being forced out of a property because of the move from rent supplement to HAP.

They are.

That will be confirmed by the Department.

There are letters.