Liam Twomey (Wexford, Fine Gael)

I intend to press the first amendment to a division, as I believe it changes substantially what we had discussed. The Minister of State said "degree of dependency of the applicant" has now been deleted and has been substituted for "need for the applicant to be maintained in a nursing home". We have no idea who will decide what is meant by "the need for the applicant to be maintained in a nursing home", as that will come in a year's time. Any right-thinking Member of the House would need to oppose the amendment, as we have no idea what it means.

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