One of the conditions for entitlement to rent supplement is that a person must be assessed by a housing authority as having a housing need.
As stated in my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 322 which I answered for the Deputy on 18th December 2007, the Health Service Executive has advised that in December 2006, it refused a payment of rent supplement in this case on the grounds that the local housing authority had not certified that the person concerned has a housing need.
The Executive has advised that this decision has not been appealed by the person concerned. It has confirmed that it has not received a new application for rent supplement from the person concerned.