Ms Judy McAvoy:

I will take the first question on naturalised Irish citizens. The habitual residency condition is a greater problem for them because they are not being treated as, for instance, a young Irish person who went away, worked and came back. They might be people who came here as refugees, might have gone to school and college here and then went away to work, like any other Irish young person before, before perhaps returning with their family. They are being held to a higher standard and it is not seen as them coming home. Their previous residence is often not recognised. It is another quite serious problem with the habitual residency condition and the idea of resuming residence. Sometimes only the resumption of residence, that its, the return, is taken into account rather than the previous residence. The whole other half of the picture is missing and not taken into account. Naturalised Irish citizens are having a tougher time. We have one case study which shows how exceptional needs payments are sometimes withheld from them if they do not satisfy the habitual residence condition, even though it is no way related to the habitual residence condition.