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

There are two scenarios. One is a couple where one dominated and another one is where couples know the rules and can avoid this pitfall. Then there are people who shared and never bothered to check. They never even dreamt that they would be penalised for putting everything together. I have had pensioners who have inherited properties and needed to put the couple’s name on it. I had one farmer who owned the farm all his life and somebody advised him to put it into two names about three years before he came to pension age.