Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I understand. However, if someone advises them that they are ineligible, that is the equivalent of a refusal. I mentioned the issues relating to bed and breakfast accommodation. I appreciate that people may have been misinformed because they may have read something in a newspaper and took it into their heads that they would be ineligible. There is no accounting for what people do. Would the officials from the Department accept that there is an element of this when people are going in to discuss it? The paperwork also presents difficulties. If a person is self-employed, he or she has a most awful fear of being obliged to produce paperwork. In addition, trying to have an assessment carried out can be very difficult. Those issues are real. This is not to cast aspersions on those who are self-employed but people have an abhorrence of these type of schemes when there is a lot of paperwork involved.