Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

Anybody who comes back permanently has no problem at all. Some people may come back for two or three months and that is an entirely different matter. If Irish people come back to Ireland to stay here, there is no difficulty in giving them all of the various entitlements. As the Deputy is aware, there are a number of areas where the habitual residence condition applies to different aspects of the social welfare system.

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