Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

I have had people in my own clinic who have done this. One man with a large house ran into difficulty, and it was suggested to him that the house was bigger than his needs. He told me he was looking to see if he could let out a room, because it is a tax free income. It would give him the same amount of money as he would get from the mortgage interest supplement.

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