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Mayo County Council can and will terminate the contracts of landlords with whom they have entered into agreements under the Rental Accommodation Scheme, if the landlords fail to live up to their obligations to stop their tenants from engaging in antisocial behaviour.

Fine Gael TD Michael Ring proposed at the Westport Joint Policing Committee on Monday that the JPC should write to Minister Mary Hanafin, Minister for Social and Family Affairs, in relation to the rent supplement scheme and recommend that the HSE will not provide rent supplement for people who are not on the local authority housing list or who have not had police checks.

Fine Gael town councillor Christy Hyland last week told representatives from the HSE that “cross checks and balances” needed to be carried out when people who are in receipt of rent supplement move to Westport to ensure that these beneficiaries are not abusing public money and have a clean record from other areas.

Transparency in the way council housing is allocated and the HSE rent allowance scheme is administered has been called for by the members of the Ballinrobe electoral area committee who feel Ballinrobe have more than their fair share of social housing.