Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

This goes back to what was said earlier. The MPRN is the only way to do this, if the payments are to be automatic and without the need for an application. As I said, once we start moving away from this approach, where payments would be made based on an application or screening, then we will be getting into a system that will be much more expensive. A certain amount of money might be saved by excluding a certain number of houses, but it might ultimately be found that it will cost more to undertake this type of differentiated system.