Seán Power (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)

I want to be quite clear about that because this has been raised. As far as I can gather, while we have heard of people talking about selling homes, I have had no evidence to suggest that anyone has been asked to sell his or her home. Certainly, it is not our intention to do that, but where an applicant's principal residence is not continuously occupied by a relative as prescribed in the subsection, such as a relative whose sole income is the old age pension or a spouse, the HSE will exclude 95% of the estimated market value of the principal residence from the financial assessment of the applicant, and this means that an imputed income of 5% of the market value of the principal residence will be taken into account.