Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 307: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Limerick was refused the household benefits package. [16079/06]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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One of the conditions of the household benefits package for people under 70 years is that the applicant must be residing alone or with excepted people. Excepted people include: a qualified adult; dependent child(ren) under age 18 or up to age 22 if in full-time education; a person so incapacitated as to require constant care and attention for at least 12 months; a person who would qualify for the allowance in his/her own right; a person providing full time care and attention to somebody in the household.

In the case of the person referred to by the Deputy, his daughter is living with him. Although she is in full-time education, she exceeds the upper age limit, as she is aged 22 years since July 2005. Accordingly, she is not considered as an excepted person for the purposes of the package.