David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome our witnesses and thank them for their work on the Bill. I doubt very much that there will be a need for any further scrutiny beyond today. The Bill is fairly simple in what it aims to do.

On the first element and the exemption of the rent-a-room income, a maximum of €14,000 is what is being recommended. This is already the most rent that can be disregarded anyway. It is obviously the purpose of the Bill to ensure that is not taken into account in the financial assessments for GP and medical cards. Is that, in essence, what that part of the Bill seeks to do?