The key changes included the amendment of the six month rule and other conditions for entitlement to Rent Supplement, including an increase in the income disregard in the means test. The Estimates also make provision for the transfer of €19 million in funding from the Rent Supplement Scheme to the Vote of the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government for the new Rental Accommodation Scheme under which local authorities will put a range of measures in place to meet the long-term housing needs of rent supplement recipients. This new Scheme is being progressively implemented over a three year time-frame and it is anticipated that some 5,000 recipients will have transferred to it by the end of the year. Other changes introduced by me related to the MABS, Crèche and Diet Supplements, Back to Education Allowance, the transitional half-rate payment to recipients of One Parent Family Payment and half rate Child Dependent Allowances to recipients of Unemployment and other benefits in certain cases.