Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 454: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding an application for interest mortgage relief for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10332/06]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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The supplementary welfare allowance scheme is administered on my behalf by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive. Neither I nor my Department has any function in relation to decisions on individual claims.

A mortgage interest supplement provides short-term income support to eligible people who are unable to meet their mortgage interest repayments in respect of a house which is their sole place of residence. The executive advised that the persons concerned applied for a mortgage interest supplement but were refused as the household income was sufficient to meet their interest costs.

The executive further advised that a special supplement was paid for an agreed period of time; from May 2005 to December 2005 as in its opinion the circumstances of the case warranted a payment. In January 2006, the executive requested documentation from the persons concerned so that it could reassess their continued entitlement to this supplement but as the information sought has not been received to date, payment of this supplement was discontinued.