Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

Briefly, we must have clarification of the average household issue. Our understanding of the position tallies with that of Deputy Eoin Ó Broin, which is that a five or six person household is calculated as a five or six person household but that households with one, two, three or four persons have all been calculated on the basis of the 2.6 or 2.7 figure, not what the Minister appeared to indicate, that they will be calculated on the basis of a figure of four. We seek clarification on that point.