All I can suggest is you get on to the local housing benefit there and talk to them about your circumtances. If you're working less than 16 hours you should definitely be entitled, more than that, and the entitlement will depend on hours and wage earned.

Good luck

If it'd in Southern Ireland i think the whole laws on benefits are different so may be worth googling it. In england certainly you can get housing benefit etc but i think the irish go by a tax system which i don't understand at all :

ah somewhere i can actually help. well before i moved to my house i was living in an apartment. and i had to have help with the rent when me and the ex broke up as i gave up working to raise our kids. the rent was 650 euro and the eastern healthboard paid about 430 of that. but that was because i was not working. i don't know where you stand with them because of your job. but there is such a thing as FIS family income supplement.... where they assess how much you are earning as opposed to how much you should be earning to afford your home and bills. if there is a local Citezens advide bureau they can give you some information as to what you are entitled to. or alternatively ring your local community welfare officer. if you don't know where they are your healthboard will give you a contact number or address.

hope that helped