Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am talking about the means test and the IQA. It is only on the wealth or income of the dependent. Some people knew, for example, to put all the savings in the pensioner's name if they were the earner. In most cases it was the male earner. I would say that was 80% of the cases I came across. It is unbelievable that people get penalised for putting things in joint accounts and that the person who knew the rules and put it all into one account was not means tested, effectively.