Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I take the Deputy's point. In terms of the basis on which people were able to get the moratorium on their loan repayments with the banks, the banks announced that they could have a moratorium of six months. For those who wanted to engage directly with the banks, the blanket moratorium stopped and therefore it was up to people who could not pay their mortgages to engage directly with the banks. It is something I looked at but the situation had not arisen. I take the Deputy's point. Why should someone get rent supplement and not look at the mortgage interest supplement? It is a payment I am familiar with that we had years ago and then it was considered to be no longer necessary.