Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

The procedure makes sense, even if that may not appear to be the case in the example cited by the Deputy. Different criteria apply in the various schemes under which applications were made by the family in question. A genuine jobseeker from another European Union country would qualify for jobseeker's allowance, as would someone who had worked previously in this country. Different circumstances may apply to each of the two brothers to whom the Deputy referred.

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