485 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the basis on which persons otherwise eligible for mortgage or rent support are only awarded 50% allowance in cases where one or other party for whatever reason is out of the family home on foot of a barring order or otherwise; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that her Department is forcing the most vulnerable in such situations to enter into a long and tedious legal process at the end of which their home will have already been repossessed by the lending agency; if she will issue instructions that the primary objective of providing the mortgage or rent support as required be observed in the first instance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40014/08]

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485 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the basis on which persons otherwise eligible for mortgage or rent support are only awarded 50% allowance in cases where one or other party for whatever reason is out of the family home on foot of a barring order or otherwise; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that her Department is forcing the most vulnerable in such situations to enter into a long and tedious legal process at the end of which their home will have already been repossessed by the lending agency; if she will issue instructions that the primary objective of providing the mortgage or rent support as required be observed in the first instance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40014/08]

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