Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

One of the criteria is to look at the time the person took out the mortgage, and whether he or she had an ability to repay it. That is reasonably valid, because the question could be asked as to whether he or she will be able to repay it. It must be asked if the State should continue to pay the mortgage interest for somebody who this time next year might never be able to attain that level of repayment.

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