Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2024-02-01
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

On the medical card for Ukrainians, that is means-tested after nine months of being in the country. There is a rent-a-room scheme for €14,000 tax-free earnings already in place for Kerry people and everybody. The line that people cannot compete with €800 per month does not tally with me because that €800 is not for properties in the rental market but for people who decided, of their own free will, if they had a spare property, to make it available to a Ukrainian family because they were fleeing war. People made that decision out of the generosity of their hearts. I am not going to second-guess the generosity of Irish citizens who did that. The State feels it should give them some support.

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Sitting date: 2024-02-01