320 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that some community welfare officers are refusing to grant exceptional needs payments to persons in receipt of social housing support via the leasing initiative for the purposes of purchasing essential household items such as white goods, beds, floor covering and so on despite the fact that the landlords involved in these leasing agreements are prohibited from providing such essential goods as part of their leasing agreement with the relevant local authority; if this is her policy position or that of individual Health Service Executive areas, and if the latter, if she supports such a policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27571/11]

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320 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that some community welfare officers are refusing to grant exceptional needs payments to persons in receipt of social housing support via the leasing initiative for the purposes of purchasing essential household items such as white goods, beds, floor covering and so on despite the fact that the landlords involved in these leasing agreements are prohibited from providing such essential goods as part of their leasing agreement with the relevant local authority; if this is her policy position or that of individual Health Service Executive areas, and if the latter, if she supports such a policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27571/11]

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