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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-02-15/34/
15 Feb 2006 - —the rent supplement as currently administered is causing serious poverty traps and disincentive to work
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-06-28/20/
28 Jun 2012 - Deputy Kevin Humphreys The Minister is trying to reform the rent supplement scheme....Some of the changes made in the budget proved to be problematic for people availing of rent supplement...As part of the budget, new upper limits for the rent supplement scheme were published....This is far in excess of the rent supplement limit of €475 for all of Dublin....Rent supplement should not function as a poverty trap and a disincentive to take up employment.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-02-15/34/
15 Feb 2006 - support the motion because it focuses attention on what is correctly described as the single worst poverty...The denial of rent supplement to people on low incomes obliges them to spend a large proportion of their...supplement and be crippled with high rents....That provides a massive disincentive to work....Another aspect of the scandal is the low rent supplement available to single people, for whom the maximum
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-02-14/21/
14 Feb 2006 - ; and —the rent supplement as currently administered is causing serious poverty traps and disincentive...thousands of low-income families and low-income workers who are financially crippled with high rents...It is a direct cause of poverty, a source of resentment and a massive disincentive to work....An excellent report by Threshold on rent supplement in Cork found that 21% of people on rent supplement...The recent Threshold report on rent supplements in Cork states that 21% of people on rent supplement
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Debate: Joint Committee On Social And Family Affairs
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_social_and_family_affairs/2003-12-03/2/
3 Dec 2003 - I am also chairperson of European Anti-Poverty Network Ireland....No alternative to rent supplement is in place. Social housing is not available....The introduction of the six months renting test for rent supplement applicants will, we believe, see...Threshold would be among the first to agree that the rent supplement system is flawed....The system involves work disincentives, undesirable regional differentiation and access problems.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-02-15/34/
15 Feb 2006 - The vast majority of those who receive rent supplement are social welfare recipients....Someone employed for 30 hours a week will no longer qualify for rent supplement....It feeds into poverty and becomes a massive disincentive to work....How can people in receipt of rent supplement take up offers of full-time work, which may not be well...paid, and immediately find they will lose rent supplement thus rendering them significantly worse off
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-02-14/21/
14 Feb 2006 - I accept that the higher the rent allowance, the greater the disincentive for people to go back to work...A number of Deputies referred to poverty traps and wedges....We will continue to pay the rent supplement until we can find other solutions, but it must be remembered...The means disregard is particularly important for people on rent supplement....The rent supplement retention income limit has not changed for some time and I will give it the attention
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Debate: Joint Committee On Social And Family Affairs
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_social_and_family_affairs/2004-11-16/2/
16 Nov 2004 - This rule gives people yet another disincentive to work, to add to the medical card guidelines and several...premise of the social welfare system is that it acts as a safety net for people in crisis and living in poverty
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1997-01-29/30/
29 Jan 1997 - Expert Group on the Integration of Tax and Social Welfare identified significant unemployment and poverty...In the context of reducing disincentives to work, Partnership 2000 contains a commitment that priority...This will significantly increase the supplements payable under the scheme, thereby increasing the rewards
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Debate: Committee Of Public Accounts
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/committee_of_public_accounts/2013-07-18/7/
18 Jul 2013 - Niamh O'Donoghue It is not so much the case that it is a poverty trap, but we are acutely aware of the...disincentive effect of rent supplement in the case of a person looking to progress from unemployment...There is conditionality attached to rent supplement....The expectation is to try to remove that disincentive to engagement by moving people to the housing assistance
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1995-09-20/272/
20 Sep 1995 - The Expert Working Group on the Integration of the Tax and Social Welfare Systems is examining disincentives...and poverty traps in the current systems, including the disincentives arising from the loss of "secondary...benefits" such as rent and mortgage supplements on re-entering or commencing employment....This report will address issues raised by the increased importance of rent and mortgage supplement as...a means of housing support in recent years, including the disincentives arising from the loss of supplement
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1988-11-22/33/
22 Nov 1988 - Woods) The family income supplement is designed to lessen the disincentive to work caused by the narrow...claiming disability or unemployment benefit and the scheme is intended to reduce the extent of that poverty
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2000-05-30/7/
30 May 2000 - Does he not see there is a poverty trap in that sector, and that this needs to be sorted out, irrespective...There is a disincentive for them to work, perhaps even an incentive to drive them into the black economy...Does the Minister not believe he has a responsibility to eliminate that poverty trap?
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-03-22/17/
22 Mar 2006 - Penrose While I rarely disagree with the Minister, the modification to the rent supplement scheme carried...There are 60,000 tenants in private rented accommodation and the supplement costs €400 million....work means that tens of thousands of low income families and workers have been financially crippled...supplement to employment constitutes a poverty trap and a disincentive to work....It could be an important factor in ensuring the elimination of this disincentive to work and poverty
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-12-10/38/
10 Dec 2019 - Rents are out of control and continue to rise....The annual 4% rent increase permitted in rent pressure zones is something that families have come to...In 2016, the family's rent was €1,400 per month, which they could just about afford....In a few short years, this financially crippled family has seen its rent increase from €1,400 per month...The annual rent increase has not only pushed working families into poverty; it has pushed many into homelessness
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-11-22/26/
22 Nov 2006 - replace the rent allowance scheme with a new housing support, which will eliminate the poverty traps...and disincentives to work associated with the current scheme;
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1999-11-02/312/
2 Nov 1999 - Child benefit is acknowledged in the supplement to be "the most direct and effective means of assisting...The link between the risk of poverty and family size has been firmly established and my Department's...The Government agrees that child benefit is one of the most effective means of tackling child poverty...universal, not taxable and not assessed as means for other secondary benefits such as differential rents..., medical cards, etc. it does not act as a disincentive to taking up employment or improving wages.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-12-14/34/
14 Dec 2010 - These two amendments and the following couple all relate to the payment of rent supplement....Rent supplement probably is the area of social welfare that is crying out most for reform....The manner in which it operates at present poses the greatest poverty trap to people in receipt of social...Approximately 7% of jobseekers are in receipt of rent supplement and for people in such circumstances...This is because of the manner in which rent supplement is withdrawn if someone goes to work.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Finance, Public Expenditure And Reform
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_finance_public_expenditure_and_reform/2014-07-16/2/
16 Jul 2014 - The European Anti-Poverty Network Ireland proposal sets out short and long-term objectives....traps - and rid ourselves of current poverty traps - one needs to look at ways through which other more...We spoke earlier about the rent supplement scheme and the fact that its withdrawal on a progressive basis...rather than slowly as people move back into work and so on is leading to the creation of poverty traps...The sudden withdrawal of rent supplement is a serious disincentive to people returning to work.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1997-11-25/193/
25 Nov 1997 - Child benefit remains one of the most effective means of tackling poverty, as it channels resources directly...takes up employment and is not assessed as means for other secondary benefits such as differential rents..., medical cards, etc., it does not act as a disincentive to taking up employment.
