Dominic Hannigan (Labour)

Again, this comes back to the word "reasonable". We had a debate on a previous occasion about what constitutes "reasonable" in the context of the social housing assessment. There are cases of hardship, as I am sure the Minister of State has seen in his work in the past, in which people cannot pay off their arrears for whatever reason. This amendment is to give some discretion to the local authority to waive those moneys on a permanent basis where hardship exists. I ask the Minister of State to think again and perhaps take this away with him and come back another day.