Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister's approach to this. These proposals came directly from clinics and professionals working in the area, and they made the point anybody can go through a difficult financial period where they are not able to keep up with payments they should be making. Very often, there are very legitimate reasons for that and it should not exclude somebody, but they felt this is too prescriptive. If the Minister is prepared to look at that and come up with some kind of conditionality around it or to soften it somewhat, I will be happy to withdraw my amendments on the basis of that commitment.