Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages Seanad Éireann — 2022-12-13 ============================================================ Heather Humphreys (FG), Cavan-Monaghan It all depends on the various different cases when it comes to the habitual residency clause because some people may have lived in the country before or they may have been out only a short time and be back. I would say to people to submit an application. The best thing that anybody can do is just apply. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/seanad/2022-12-13/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:51:25+00:00 Sitting date: 2022-12-13