Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 7 October 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Discussion

Photo of Denis NaughtenDenis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There will not be a diminution in regard to any of those schemes. I will leave a final comment with the witnesses. The habitual residency condition is something that could come back to haunt us if, down the road, we take a different approach from that taken in the UK in terms of the test.

I do not think it is an issue in the short term but it will have to be looked at again.

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