176 Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6 who has been out of work owing to a debilitating injury since April 2007 has been informed by their local community welfare officer that rent allowance will cease to be payable at the end of December 2007 and that the person concerned has been unable to secure alternative cheaper accommodation with a landlord willing to accept rent allowance; if he will intervene to ensure a more humane consideration of this person’s ongoing rent allowance entitlement as regulation of the supplementary welfare scheme is a matter for his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33070/07]

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176 Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6 who has been out of work owing to a debilitating injury since April 2007 has been informed by their local community welfare officer that rent allowance will cease to be payable at the end of December 2007 and that the person concerned has been unable to secure alternative cheaper accommodation with a landlord willing to accept rent allowance; if he will intervene to ensure a more humane consideration of this person’s ongoing rent allowance entitlement as regulation of the supplementary welfare scheme is a matter for his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33070/07]

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1. 6 December 2007

   Social Welfare Benefits.

   176 Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6 who has been out of work owing to a debilitating injury since April 2007 has been informed by their local community welfare officer that rent allowance will cease to be payable at the end of December 2007 and that the person concerned has been unable to secure alternative cheaper accommodation with a landlord willing to accept rent allowance; if he will intervene to ensure a more humane consideration of this person’s ongoing rent allowance entitlement as regulation of the supplementary welfare scheme is a matter for his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33070/07]

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