Rent supplements won’t solve the crisis

CARMEL FIELDS, press officer, Department of Social and Family Affairs (Irish Examiner letters, August 11) takes me to task for my efforts on behalf of families in dire need of housing prior to the introduction of the rent supplements scheme.

Rent supplements won’t solve the crisis
Sat, 14 Aug, 2004 - 01:00

The scheme, which - as I stated previously and reiterate now - will only increase their misery.

It would seem I touched a raw nerve within the department, as I did when it tried a short time ago to victimise working widows. We all know what happened on that occasion - the department made a U-turn.

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