Ms Josephine Feehily:

No, that is the payment period. The tax is stable for three and a half years, until November 2016, the new valuation date for 2017. A deferral is available until a person's circumstances change in most cases. Therefore, people should come back if their circumstances have changed. However, if the person remains on jobseeker's allowance, the deferral will continue. Some deferrals have a specific time period such as the one being proposed for homes affected by pyrite, which is three years. If a person is and remains on jobseeker's allowance, he or she is not expected to come back every year to say this. We will have that information.