Alex White (Dublin South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We passed legislation last year to provide for a better exchange of data between various State agencies, including the Department of Social Protection, Revenue and the HSE on the Primary Care Reimbursement Service, PCRS. If I am not mistaken, there were provisions in one or other of the statutes we passed last year for the over 70s, although they were not confined to them. There should be a good exchange of data and I will consider the Deputy's point. It would not require an amendment to the Bill to ensure such an exchange continued and was improved. Sometimes we use terms such as "habitual residence" and "ordinary residence" which tend to be interchangeable, but they have different meanings. Some agencies deal with issues to do with habitual residence and others with ordinary residence. We must be conscious, however, that they are not exactly the same.