Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

We do not believe it does because the case determined by the appeals officer was based only on the legal arguments from both sides and did not look at or set out a particular set of circumstances by which people would or would not qualify. Since then, as I outlined earlier, decisions have been made to refuse applications and such decisions have been upheld by the appeals officer.

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