294 Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Social Protection, in the case of a family whose business has collapsed, and who are paying a mortgage on the family home, and where one of the couple has applied for jobseeker’s allowance, if the means test is conducted on means net of the mortgage repayments on the family home; if not, the reason; her views on the matter of adjusting our social protection system to allow for the new reality of families who may have paper wealth, in the form of property, but who may be unable to meet very basic bills, even including food, because of the burden of debt; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37607/11]

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294 Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Social Protection, in the case of a family whose business has collapsed, and who are paying a mortgage on the family home, and where one of the couple has applied for jobseeker’s allowance, if the means test is conducted on means net of the mortgage repayments on the family home; if not, the reason; her views on the matter of adjusting our social protection system to allow for the new reality of families who may have paper wealth, in the form of property, but who may be unable to meet very basic bills, even including food, because of the burden of debt; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37607/11]

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