Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, Independents 4 Change) | Oireachtas source

In agreement with a point that has been raised on the DSP disregard for March 2025, can Mr. Egan put an estimate on when the Department is going to start reviewing it? If people are going into this agreement with a student or whoever, it will be very important that they have a longer term understanding of it and that the student is not going to be in a situation in March where they feel that they are not going to be able to stay there for the academic year. The other point is the case that the Chair has brought up. It is important as I do not think any social welfare payments or medical cards should be affected if people take somebody in or rent a room in their home. I know of a family whose parent was in a nursing home and it was not them looking for someone to come in and rent the room, but a couple approached them as they were stuck with nowhere to live. They did not want to take it on because of the implications of the assessment process with fair deal. It was a bit more complicated. Is Mr. Egan saying that this will not affect the fair deal payments at all? Maybe as a way to assist families who may have an empty house as their parent is in a nursing home, Nursing Homes Ireland could advise people when their parents move into a nursing home, at an appropriate time such as two months after that, that there is this option that can be availed of?