Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Whether you are urban or rural, you would be treated the same. The difficulty is that we have people who cannot go into nursing homes, or people who are in nursing homes and their successors are farming the land and paying out from the income from the land in order to keep them in nursing homes, which was never the intention of this legislation. It is a small cohort of people but it is causing huge hardship for those families who were are trying to keep in rural Ireland.