Family of eight without a home

A COUPLE and their six children have been left homeless because the HSE will not pay rent allowance on a house deemed unsuitable.

Danielle and Ger Harte said they were encouraged to move into a house in Ardnacrusha by a member of Clare County Council days before they were due to sign a rental agreement for another house in Kilalloe under the council’s Rental Accommodation Scheme.

However, they said they were persuaded to opt for a house in Ardnacrusha as five of their children attended nearby Parteen primary school and were getting on well and the school needed to keep up pupil numbers.