Coalition urged to hike rent allowance

Rent allowance must be increased if the Government is serious about ending homelessness, opposition TDs insisted as the Dáil remembered the death of rough sleeper Jonathan Corrie.

Mr Corrie’s body was found in a doorway across the road from Leinster House last week and his death sparked a flurry of activity from ministers.

But TDs criticised the lack of action on rent allowance rates as they warned people are being priced out of the private sector and forced into emergency accommodation.