John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty. Before we begin the meeting and as I will be chairing and not contributing to it I want to acknowledge the Minister's announcement that she will deal with people in receipt of mortgage interest supplement and that she will be explaining it to, and notifying, those people. Those affected, and I know a couple of them, will really appreciate this.

We will suspend for a couple of moments and bring in the officials from the Department.