Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

There were a lot of good things in the Cooney report. One simple change would have helped a lot of people, namely, to have abolished the 30 hour rule where if a two income family becomes a one income family and that person works more than 30 hours a week, they cannot get mortgage interest supplement. We made other constructive changes to mortgage interest supplement which could have been done and more could have been done to build on that. The Government did N-O-T-H-I-N-G - nothing - in the meantime.

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