Catherine Byrne (Dublin South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will be brief. This concerns a case I am dealing with to which the Minister of State may be able to respond. In concerns a couple where one partner died owing money to the Department of Social Protection and the remaining partner, who is dying, is repaying it through the old age pension. I was told by the Department that when that person dies the payment will still continue through the children who will have to clear the debt. I was surprised at that because-----