Departmental Schemes
Dail Éireann — 2022-05-17
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Heather Humphreys (FG), Cavan-Monaghan

The other measures I mentioned, including the disregard for off-farm income, the capital disregard, depreciation and so forth, will be considered as part of the budget but obviously, there are constraints there. We definitely need to look at the means test. I never saw anything as complicated in my life, to be honest. I remember the late Seymour Crawford was an expert and a whizzer on them. People come in with a tin box full of receipts, not just for one year but for the previous three or four years and one tries to sift through them. Poor Seymour is not around now but he was a great man for going through those boxes and knowing exactly what they were entitled to. It definitely could be streamlined more and I am happy to look at that and to work with the Deputies on it.

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